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.