It is all about knowledge. Maybe knowing a bit more than the buyer next to you. Sometimes you have to work on a hunch that something looks right...
Just part of our hoard. Our children want nothing. They got fed up with the endless stff mining.
Have to add bought in France fairly recently. No pottery mark on base. Terracotta. I have found that there is no written documentation supporting...
This Watcombe pottery design is attributed to Christopher Dresser.[IMG][IMG]
My MIL lived in Linthorpe for 60 years (Middlesbrough)We often went into the Linthorpe museum. I am going back 30 years now. The museum said the...
If you google Christopher Dresser designs, just click on images and you will see a whole range of his work.
I believe Linthorpe and Bretby did dimpled vases, probably other factories as well.[IMG]
yes. We started of collecting Linthorpe and ended up with Christopher Dresser pieces. His designs are well documented, so you can buy pieces which...
We used to collect Christopher Dresser pottery, mostly Linthorpe, many years ago. When we moved house, 14 years ago, we sold it all.
It looks like a hobbyist piece. A blank used for someone to decorate at home or a group class. As so many people decorated blanks as a hobby, or...
It is from Zara, very showy and very cheap, 2 euros. No stones missing and looks very good on. It will do as a present for someone.
Base. Found out it is worth about what I paid, 10 euros, but from a charity stall.[IMG]
Bought this for the sole reason of finding out about it. Plique a jour, 5 inches high.[IMG]
The dish is silver,14 oz, 10 euros. Bought at 2 in the afternoon after hoards of people had been around. I often find my best buys seem to be in...
Todays haul. Once a stuff miner, always a stuff miner.[IMG]
All the ones I have had in the past were Italian. Always good sellers.
Agree with lipstick holder.
I have a small collection of old international exhibition medals. My favourite is from the 1925 Arts et decorative exhibition in Paris.
It was designed by Alex Geefs.
From what we have found out, 1950 as an homage to Le Corbusier. Not sure if this is right.
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