More WGP - second box this week

After Wednesday's arrival it seems greedy to get another. But hey, there won;t be another such delivery for many weeks / months - just happened to pick a lot up in quick time.



This box, once again from Anne Elwick over in Wiesloch, Germany, contained four more vases - fewer as one of them was a large floor vase.
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I was intending to head out this morning on a buying run but am only just getting over the flu and I am really not up to much.

Wednesday New Arrivals

Okay, here we go - let's try to get blogging regularly again.



I'm a sickie - nothing more than a heavy cold but being male it's got me close to death in a way the female of the species just doesn't understand. (I'm kidding of course, it's just a regular cold but I've been working from home this week to prevent risking passing this bug onto my colleagues.)



Anyway, three days into my self-imposed internal exile I'm starting to go stir-crazy and so the arrival of a large box promising goodies was a welcome sight.



I stopped buying items from eBay apaert from ones close enough to where I live last years (after some broken-vase disasters). But there is a definite exception. There's a dealer in Germany going by the username annee6706 who I trust implicitly to do a perfect packing job. And once more she did me proud. (There's a link to her eBay page below in case you facyt giving her some business. I was a little hesitant as it might mean I have to pay more in future. Anyway - link below.)



http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/annee6706&ssPageName=STRK:MEFSX:SELLERID&_trksid=p3984.m1543.l2533




As for the items I received, well here's a picture

How time gets away from you

When I started this blog I had meant to regular post entries about my growing obsession with WGP. And I did for a while. Then life got very busy. As Christmas approached I had a number of holidays to take (else risk losing) and so planned a couple of trips - one to Tongeren in Belgium for the express purpose of collecting (as it included a trip to a flea market in the Netherlands as well as the weekly antiques market in Tongeren itself) and the other to Cologne/Dusseldorf for the Christmas markets and to meet up with friends.

(The trip to Cologne did also include a side trip to the Netherlands flea market so wasn't totally without pottery.)

In between these have also been several trips to antique fairs and centres as well as some charity shop rummaging so there have been a number of new items joining their friends on my shelves - and some new shelves to make further expansion possible. But no blogging. No time.

I will try to correct this in future but sorry - no guarantees.

Sunday Antiques Fair Finds

Yesterday and first thing this morning were both wash outs. Yesterday because the kid looking after his dad's antique store up in Lincolnshire was pissy when I went to check if I could get a discount for buying multiple items. I had an early Bay vase that was a little dull to be honest and a vase they'd marked as "continental" tha tI was a little dubious about actually being German.



I'd had a chat with the guy's Dad about them and had the usual little discount mentioned with phrases like "look after you if you buy multiple".



Problem was by the time I got to the counter the father had gone leaving his son in charge - a son who seemed far more interested in watching football on the TV than talking to customers. And certainly he had no interest in giving the discount. So, end result, he kept the vases.



And nowhere else I went had any WGP at all.



Fast forward to Sunday at the day starts with rain - or no car boots for me. not a good start to the weekend.



But then there was the antique fair in St.Ives in Cambridgeshire. Okay these things mean you will always a pay a little more for vases so it has to be an unusual piece for me to want to pay the price, but there is always a chance of finding something.



And today I did fond something, or rather three somethings - two Carstens vases (the orange one in the picture below being 50cm tall) and a D&B.

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So a not too bad weekend - and next week I'm off to Glossop to see Aidan and Emma. That will mean a few more vases.

Midweek Marvels

We had the day off today and we found ourselves in Solihull- appointments etc, although I don't imagine anyone would truly care.



What this did give us was an opportunity to go hunting.



But alas our options around Solihull proved fruitless; not a single item of interest spotted anywhere. We'd resigned ourselves to not finding any new ceramics.



What we'd not really counted on was seeing an antiques centre on the way home. It's just on the A452 south of Solihull called the Barn, or something like that. We thought we'd give it a try. I'm kind of glad we did as right inside the door they had a everything for £2 cabinet which had a Bay Keramik vase in it. Not for long.



A further look around the place and I'd added a Scheurich 289-27. Happiness all around and so we headed off for lunch.



Thing is we picked the cafe at Hoar Park craft centre for lunch where there happens to be an antiques centre alongside all the craft shops and so the early afternoon saw the Scheurich's big brother 289-47 tag along for the ride home.



One day off, lots of official stuff done and three more vases. Almost sounds like mixing business with pleasure.



And the vases are pictured below.

General catch-up

As always for me the best of intention never quite...well, you know what I mean.



I may not have posted for three weeks but I haven't been totally without acquisition. In fact I have to report yesterday as having been particularly good for feeding my obsession.



I woke up - saw that the sun was out and that all was dry and decided it was definitely car boot time. I'm glad I did. For a short hour later I had accumulated arm-fulls of goodies - so much so that I had to pop back to the car to unload as I was unable to pick anything else up.



Anyway, here's the image.

And to summarise

    - 4 Scheurichs

    - 1 Dümler & Breiden (white and green square cylinder

    - Lamp base of unknown manufacture

    - 2 Steuler candlesticks

    - 0.5l Stein with b/w transfer print.


Yes, I am a happy person. Now if only I had more room.

Car boots weekend

I'm trying not to be typically English and discuss the weather, but it's inevitable. It's only obliquely though. The truth is I was pretty much resigned to not going to many more car boots this year. Then the English climate through us a bit of a curve ball. Or, to put it another way it's been warm and dry.



So I went to a car boot sale yesterday and managed to find one or two littlle things - and a rather big one. Here's a quick image.

And so along comes Sunday and the weather still holds so I popped out again and found more stuff...

And yes I now really must admit to collecting German Steins too. Darn, I think I'm going to run out of space even quicker than I previously thought.