It's a Very Small World

In a previous incarnation - leastways it seems that long ago - I was a potter.  Actually, like most things in life, it was not as simple as that.  To cut out all the detail, for many years, until it was sold in January 2005, I had interests in a pottery on Lewis.  It made the widest range of pottery of any pottery in Scotland.  One day I'll do a proper post on the pottery and its history on Eagleton Notes.   One of it's unique ranges of pottery was a marbled ware called the Hebridean Range.  Last week Wendy was in an op shop (opportunity shop = charity shop/thrift store/goodwill) in Napier when she saw an egg separator made by the pottery in that range.

From the backstamp underneath I can tell that it was made pre-1997 when Fear an eich (a partnership between between my wife and I) was sold to a new company (of which I was the major shareholder).  It would be fascinating to know how it came to New Zealand.

A Pottery Figurine

Napier has a Pottery Club. It is just by the Croquet Club (and the Bridge Club and the Bowling Club and the Rugby Club etc etc - Napier has at least one Club for everything you can think of) but I've never popped in to say 'Hello'. Possibly because I've always thought that I might be tempted to renew my acquaintance with Pottery. In a funny sort of way I'd like to do it without it having to survive as a business. Anyway, I digress. We also have a Garden Centre called Palmers. They have a section devoted to the Pottery Club's results. I was in there a few days ago and saw the above figurine entitled 'Dutch Girl'. No surprise there then. It has a simplicity; almost a crude simplicity. Yet the attitude of coyness captured is, I think, charming. So, for the vast cost of $6 (£2.20) I acquired it. It was sitting on the table when Wendy popped down last night and she was taken aback because when she was at School she made an almost identical figure. So now my curiosity needs to find out who made the figure and a visit to the Napier Pottery Club will take place.