Laurel Trimmings

I've taken annual leave this week and been hard at work in the garden, getting it ready for when Spring finally arrives.  Gardening is about as energetic as I get, so the winner of these plates really has put me to shame.
I found them as a set of 6 on eBay, but I don't know how many years the Poole Marathon was held, or if Poole Pottery made plates for more than these six years. As a tireless collector, I won't be resting on my laurels until I know for sure that there are no plates dating from before 1986, or after 1992 and that the 1987 Marathon was cancelled.

Painterly Delphs

Buying pots on eBay is always a bit of a gamble.  Until they land on the doorstep, you never quite know what you've got.  This 8" (no. 3) Delphis plate, painted by Christine Tate in the late 1960's, was a real nice surprise.  As Delphis goes, it isn't all that colorful: some of the black lines were painted in the hope that they would turn out blue once fired.  But I think I prefer them black. The plate has a lovely, graphic painterly style,  nice texture in places, subtle colouring in parts, and it typifies what I like most about Delphis.

A long search rewarded

John Adams designed his Streamline coffee pots/hot water jugs in 3 sizes.  I've had the largest (7 1/2" tall) and smallest (5" tall) in my favourite C95 Twintone colours for quite a while, but until last week the middle sized pot (5 3/4" Tall) had eluded me.

CB/219

And finally, the third pot from the auction job lot I started posting photos of last month. This bowl (shape number 219) has a pattern (CB pattern) that I've not seen before and was the main reason for my purchase of the 3 pots.  

Blogging through treacle, but will speed up again soon

Here's the second, of the three pot auction lot I won, so long ago now, that I've forgotten exactly when.  I will post the third one soon though.  And the important information UH/570.

EJ pattern

Here's one of 3 small pots I won in an auction at the end of last year .  All have some damage, but the patterns were unusual enough to draw a bid out of me. This one EJ pattern  painted by Ruth Paveley on a 3 inch tall vase shape 443.

Carole Holden Pin Dish

This shape 49, 5" Delphis pin dish, painted by Carole Holden in the late 1960's, came from Cottees Auctioneers at the end of last year along with this tiger striped one.

Lunchtime Reading

Although my new job (5 days a week, with far too much of that spent looking at a computer screen) may have dampened my blogging ardor, it has also given me access to a library full of Poole Pottery knowledge. This ad appeared in "The Pottery Gazette and Glass Trade Review" in 1932.  
Over several lunch breaks so far I've thumbed 3 or 4 years worth of the Gazette, but there's another couple of decades of back issues to keep me busy and then I get started on "Tableware International".

Potpourri

I found this potpourri jar on eBay at the end of last year.  It's painted in XK pattern by a decorator whose mark (below) I've seen several times before on pots from the first half of the 1920's, but who isn't listed in the reference books.  The pot is relatively early (mid 1920's), and though made from the usual red earthenware it feels like it,s been fired at a higher temperature and thrown quite thinly, perhaps to allow for the piercings. 

Anyone with ideas about the mark, please let me know.