Flash

I love this EH pattern.  It really has that Art Deco industrial/futuristic look, a little like the Chrysler Building or film posters for Metropolis.  Shape number 559, it's just under 6 inches tall and was painted by Marjorie Batt in the early 1930's.  It came to me via eBay from a fellow collector.

Tall Jam Jar

There doesn't seem to be very much daylight around at the moment for taking new photos.  This pot came from eBay a couple of months ago when the days were a little longer.  You don't see so many of these tall jam pots shape no 287, and the QO pattern is always good, this time painted by Nellie Bishton.  Nellie, or as she was later known Mrs Blackmore, had a career at Poole that spanned an amazing 49 year, from 1927 until 1976.

Chicken brick?

I remember keeping a lookout for one of these twin-tone butter boxes for quite a while before finding this one. I really loved it's Tupperware looks - not a bit like pottery really -so it's not helping at all with my current feelings of ceramic cold turkey.
It must be well over a week since I last found any Poole Pottery, but I am hoping to make up for this next weekend.  Cottess Auctioneers in Wareham have just sent me the catalogue for their latest Poole Pottery Sale on Saturday 17th November.  It's like eBay on speed.  And although the sale is too far for me to travel to, they do a great packing service.

TP or QL

I love this weird pattern and this vase shape isn't a bad match, so despite it's cracks, I snapped up the vase from eBay a couple of weeks ago.  Shape number 599, TP pattern (at least thats what it says on the bottom) painted by Marjorie Batt in the early 1930's. The same pattern as this QL pattern vase

Pear-shaped?

This was probably the first Poole vase in my collection, though I'm not sure it's ever lived anywhere other than in it's box under the spare bed.  In the early days of collecting I had different ideas about budgets and how much was reasonable to spend, so this fitted the budget pretty well at the time, though it's all gone a bit pear-shaped since. 

Anyway the vase is from a range called Calypso and dates from 1984. They came in various pastel colours as well as lustre-like glazes and, I can see from Hayward and Atterbury book, quite a lot more shapes that I thought.

Bokhara JC Pattern Storage Jars

These JC pattern Bokhara storage jars were made in 4 sizes.  I've had the little one for quite a few years and its taken until now to find a second., I think these two are the smallest and second to largest, though neither of the seem to match the dimensions given in factory catalogue.

M

This pattern (M) I have never seen before, and  I bet it wasn't made in big numbers, as those little black circles would have been a devil to draw. Can't wait until next weekend when there'll be time for breakfast.

Jumping the Queue

These wonderful egg cups landed on my doorstep only yesterday, after been sold by a fellow collector, who  had found them a few years earlier on eBay.com, listings in the US.  I was a stranger to this yellow and brown chevron pattern six months ago, but now, although I know its rare, I seem to be collecting more and more of it.  These two are marked DL, the others pots I have are marked YM, theres no logic to it but you can have a look at the others here and here.

324/EU

Slowing down on the blogging does mean I'm accumulating a useful backlog of pots to post on here in the coming weeks.  This sweet little jug has a pattern that (believe it or not) I've not collected before - EU. It was painted by Vera Bridle who started working at the pottery in 1923, and the grey coloured slip covering the jug dates it pretty much to that year.