What do you do with your Pottery
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
dantheman wrote:the similarity to drugs is quite surprising.
Collecting starts with the odd piece now and again when visiting an antiques fair or studio pottery but then you meet some dealers, get introduced to a convenient and regular supply such as Ebay and before you know it you're on 10 a week with big binges when you go to ceramics fairs and you're on first name terms with all the postmen and couriers in your area!!
It's that sense of well-being that comes over you, when you've had that pottery hit.
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I used to get that but it takes a very special piece to send me there these days which is why I now sell more and buy fewer
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Hi everyone, first post, great looking forum.
At the moment I am buying Susie Cooper in as good condition as possible as an investment for the future, a few extra quid for daughters nest egg, though judging by some of the prices on ebay it is getting cheaper and cheaper!
One reason I buy is to use myself. Apart from collecting for my imagined display bookcase (on the things to do list) I like to use old china for normal every day use around the huse. IE why not have a beautiful pot to stack your pens instead of a plain metal job. A crystal pot for your cotton wool etc etc. My cat eats off an old shelley tea saucer and I have a few I use as ashtrays
I have a question though about crockery. I wouldnt eat off stained and crazed plates but are plates even pre 1950 in nice looking nick ok to eat off? I cant thnk why not. Same with cups.
At the moment I am buying Susie Cooper in as good condition as possible as an investment for the future, a few extra quid for daughters nest egg, though judging by some of the prices on ebay it is getting cheaper and cheaper!
One reason I buy is to use myself. Apart from collecting for my imagined display bookcase (on the things to do list) I like to use old china for normal every day use around the huse. IE why not have a beautiful pot to stack your pens instead of a plain metal job. A crystal pot for your cotton wool etc etc. My cat eats off an old shelley tea saucer and I have a few I use as ashtrays
I have a question though about crockery. I wouldnt eat off stained and crazed plates but are plates even pre 1950 in nice looking nick ok to eat off? I cant thnk why not. Same with cups.
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
Welcome to the forum.
I expect they're ok, although I doubt they'd stand up to a dishwasher, and may be quite fragile when washing up in the sink. I had some low fired Bourton on the Water ones which disintegrated in the sink.
The ones to avoid are brightly coloured Chinese ones, which I think have arsenic in the green colours.
I expect they're ok, although I doubt they'd stand up to a dishwasher, and may be quite fragile when washing up in the sink. I had some low fired Bourton on the Water ones which disintegrated in the sink.
The ones to avoid are brightly coloured Chinese ones, which I think have arsenic in the green colours.
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zippy wrote:
Dear Dan your scaring me now.
Truthfully with so much time on my hands I have to go pot hunting 3 days a week.
Only second hand shops and the like.
recently, I was chatting to a friend about my 'finding pots' addiction, and said when I was a kid I used to spend my pocket money on lucky bags rather than the choc bars etc. Its about the surprise.
I don't know whether I make sense there but I always wanted a metal detector.
Maybe that can be my new hobby
Just reading through this thread again and it reminded me of this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uK92NYwBMts
One needs to be very careful who one hangs about with
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
Emma54 wrote:Hi everyone, first post, great looking forum.
At the moment I am buying Susie Cooper in as good condition as possible as an investment for the future, a few extra quid for daughters nest egg, though judging by some of the prices on ebay it is getting cheaper and cheaper!
One reason I buy is to use myself. Apart from collecting for my imagined display bookcase (on the things to do list) I like to use old china for normal every day use around the huse. IE why not have a beautiful pot to stack your pens instead of a plain metal job. A crystal pot for your cotton wool etc etc. My cat eats off an old shelley tea saucer and I have a few I use as ashtrays
I have a question though about crockery. I wouldnt eat off stained and crazed plates but are plates even pre 1950 in nice looking nick ok to eat off? I cant thnk why not. Same with cups.
Hi Emma,
Welcome and the good news is that you are not going to die using Susie Cooper ware or any other British pots for eating off and/or drinking from.
Many commercial tablewares do craze and may even crazed very early in their life because they were cooled slightly too quickly when leaving the kiln. These are fine as long as they are clean and even stain ones could be treated with a bleach solution and then rinsed and used.
In a former life I used to teach Food Hygiene to trainee chefs so do have some idea of what I'm talking about...................... or have I forgotten it all!
P.S. You'll find that cats prefer studio pottery to factory wares given the choice.
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
If Memory serves me right, wasn't Midwinter's Stonehenge "Nasturtium" pattern
withdrawn, because the chemicals in the glazes in the flower design leached out,
on contact with some, probably acidic, foods. I'm guessing cadmium in the yellow,
or was it something in the red?
withdrawn, because the chemicals in the glazes in the flower design leached out,
on contact with some, probably acidic, foods. I'm guessing cadmium in the yellow,
or was it something in the red?
Re: What do you do with your Pottery
I've checked and it was cadmium, although there was no indication that I could find that it leeched out. It appears that it was just that in the early 1980's chemicals containing cadmium were banned from pottery used for food and the pattern was discontinued.
So it was in production for 8 years and old stock wasn't taken off the market. It is still available from replacement companies so it clearly can't have been seen as a health risk of any significance. It looks as if workers at Midwinter were the people who were at potential risk.
So it was in production for 8 years and old stock wasn't taken off the market. It is still available from replacement companies so it clearly can't have been seen as a health risk of any significance. It looks as if workers at Midwinter were the people who were at potential risk.
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
These days you need to eat liver and kidneys to get your cadmium dose.......................... and no, there is no such thing as Cadmium Diary Milk.
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
I have a couple of Fishley Holland's Uranium-glazed pieces. I won't be bringing them to the dinner table.
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LOL you lot are funny, thats good!!
Thanks for the welcome and comments all. I wont be worrying at all now, especially not since I got a fine British porcelain dinner plate, Royal Worcester and all and a divine pattern,with the scratch marks going brown,(only the one in the set) steeped in fairy liquid in the sink and a steradent now, good as new!! if only I could treat my teeth as easy.
Thanks for the welcome and comments all. I wont be worrying at all now, especially not since I got a fine British porcelain dinner plate, Royal Worcester and all and a divine pattern,with the scratch marks going brown,(only the one in the set) steeped in fairy liquid in the sink and a steradent now, good as new!! if only I could treat my teeth as easy.
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Your next big test is to upload some images of your pieces in the relevant thread or, if there isn't one, then to start a new thread.
Some people find it difficult at first but please have a go because we are going to be very worried if we don't hear from you again.
Some people find it difficult at first but please have a go because we are going to be very worried if we don't hear from you again.
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Re: What do you do with your Pottery
could be our first pottery related death on the forum, Pip went arse over tit into a pile of pots a few years ago but she survived
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I believe at the time there were rumours that she had been pushed and wasn't it shortly before she disappeared forever?
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the police looked into the pushing theory but couldn't reduce the suspect list enough to make investigation a viable option
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you and I were prime suspects for a while Paul
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