Scheurich
Carstens
Bay Keramik
Dümler & Breiden
Roth
Ruscha
Yeah - FAT LAVA in other word, West German Pottery if you like (although both terms are not entirely accurate).
I kind of figured I should do this - more like figured it was inevitable really. Until the start of this year I write short stories, articles and book and movie reviews for a number of magazines - all science fiction and horror and maybe of little interest to anyone to anyone who might browse accros this blog anyway. In case you do here's the link
http://ielester.blogspot.com/
Well I gave up writing, maybe temporarily, maybe permanently early this year and started to collect German Pottery.
It started accidentally. I bought a vase in February just because it was the right size and right colour to balance a vase my in-laws had bought in Scotland many years ago. And it looked perfect.
It also had some numbers on the bottom, 517-30, and W.Germany. That made me curious. I wanted to know what it was all about. What the numbers meant. I should have known it was dangerous. After all I've lived in this head of mine for over four decades and I know what I'm like. I collect things.
And all because of that one missing space on the shelf I now collect German pottery. And I research German Pottery. Yes I'm that sad.
So the obvious next step of someone who used to write but now doesn't and who collects Fat Lava is to write about it. Even if no one actually reads it.
Oh, and the Giant in the title refers to my height. I'm over two metres tall. Doesn't make me to greatest collector of German pottery, or the most prolific, or the most knowledgable on the subject. But I might be one of the tallest. I'll take that.
And just so you don't get too bored. Here's a picture of one of my vases...
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