Featured My £1 bargain of the week!

Picked up this 40cm bowl at a pop up shop for a pound. It is a Whieldon ware bowl by F.Winkle & Co Ltd. The pattern is called Wessex and I have seen it in green on a chamber pot but never in grey. My research has yielded little but I have dated it between 1911 (When they added the Ltd to the name) and 1931 when they closed. I guess it probably came with a jug but this is still a great usable day to day item with no chips or cracks. Would love to know more about it if anyone can offer more info than I have but really I'm just showing off my bargain of the week!

 

It's Winkle Wessex Whieldon Ware? An alliteration riot!

 

'Tis indeed a bit of a tongue twister.

 

I sort of 'collect' spontaneous tongue twisters. Try saying 'brown blown glass' 5 times fast.

 

But wouldn't you like to find the ewer? (Especially for £1 more.) It's very nice. I've always liked those vermicular patterns... used to doodle them.

 

Vermiculee vermicular?

 

In the vernacular.... (it may not make sense, but it had to be done)

 

Send it up the funicular...

 

At an hour crepuscular...

 

There ya go wid thos big wurds again
alliteration
noun
noun: alliteration; plural noun: alliterations
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
"the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’"

vermicular
/vəˈmɪkjʊlə/
adjective
adjective: vermicular
like a worm in form or movement; vermiform.

crepuscular
adjective
adjective: crepuscular
resembling or relating to twilight.
Zoology (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight.

 

That is one pulchritudinous bowl!

 

pulchritudinous
adjective: pulchritudinous
beautiful.
"Dan gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette"

I cannot ever imagine saying that to a woman - not without a running start first

 

It always makes me think of Mae West, for some reason...

 

Still trying...
Will add ‘pulchritudinous » when I will be able to...
Now, @Number 47 can see how playful we are, and how fast a nice post can run out of topic

 

Who said, "those magnificent examples of female pulchritude and luminosity" and when?

 

... Direct From Their
Global Perambulations To The Very Boards Of This
Supremely Magnificent Proscenium Arch - Ladies And
Gentlemen; I Give You Famous Groupies!

Sir(!) Paul McCartney
Wings

 

Even Sir Paul ...(sigh) shoulda known.

 

OK, what does 'glowing in their liquifaction' mean?

 

Some kind of Chernobyl bowel problem?
Sounds petrifyingly fecal.

 

Haha! @Number 47, you seem perfectly fit to our facetious community