Janet Kaiser on tue 3 jul 01
It is all relative folks! "Inexpensive" to you, may
mean major financial crisis or bankruptcy to me... But
here are some pieces, dates, descriptions and prices
here in the UK. Taken from the famous Milner-White
collection:
Vase, 1923, tenmoku glaze with iron-oxide random
decoration 26 cm high, 11.4 cm deep. Marks: character
Sho and St Ives monogram (impressed) This is one of the
rare pots Hamada made at St. Ives. Price 3½ guineas
Bottle, 1923-6, grey-green crackle glaze with flower
and band decoration. 19.1 cm h, 18.5 cm deep. Character
Sho and St. Ives monogram (impressed). £10
Bottle, 1923, tenmoku glaze with kaki trailing. 16.9 cm
high, 21 cm deep. Character Sho and St. Ives monogram
(impressed). 25 guineas
Covered box, c. 1929, tenmoku glaze with kaki markings
radiating out from centre in two circles. 6 cm high,
8.4 cm deep. 5 guineas
Large dish c. 1929 sand coloured glaze with brush
decoration in blue and green 10.8 cm h, 39.4 cm
diameter. 20 guineas.
Tea set (6 cups, saucers, tea pot, milk jug and sugar
bowl) exhibited 1931. Tessha over cream slip with brush
decoration. 8 guineas
Square dish, exhibited 1952, beaten, moulded, impressed
pattern along rim. Tenmoku and nuka glazes. 6.7 cm x
30.3 cm. £12
Hexagonal ash try, exhibited 1952, 3.5 x 12.4 cm. £1
A guinea is one of our peculiarities we have in the
UK... Art and horses are traditionally sold in these
monetary units! It was one pound and one shilling (20
shillings to the pound). Today you have to add one
pound sterling to each twenty pounds... I think that
makes it 1.1 pounds per guinea? Whatever it was, my
family would not have been in the market for any of it.
My measure? In the mid 1970s my mother was earning £12
per week and £6 went on rent...
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art . Capel Celfyddyd
HOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL POTTERS' PATH
Criccieth LL52 0EA, GB-Wales Tel: (01766) 523570
E-mail: postbox@the-coa.org.uk
WEBSITE: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
Janet Kaiser on wed 4 jul 01
BTW The prices I quoted were paid the date/year the
pieces were made or exhibited. So that was during
the Depression, pre or post War Britain. I believe the
exchange rate was something like US$8 to the pound
sterling in those days? My uncle always called half a
crown or 2/6 (two shillings and six pence) a "dollar".
Whatever.
The maximum allowed out of the UK when traveling was
£50 per person, per year up to about 1980. Special
dispensation from the Bank of England was sometimes
granted, like when I spent a year in the USA 1975-6 and
took £200.
Janet Kaiser - Broiling in high temperatures with sky
high humidity. Reminds me of Montreal... Just too hot
and sticky to think. We are OK in Criccieth, but flash
floods and four inches of rain in a couple of hours
have probably made your news as well as ours! Seeing
caravans (trailers) bobbing around like corks is a
little scary, specially if you are in one!
The Chapel of Art . Capel Celfyddyd
HOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL POTTERS' PATH
Criccieth LL52 0EA, GB-Wales Tel: (01766) 523570
E-mail: postbox@the-coa.org.uk
WEBSITE: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
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Vase, 1923, tenmoku glaze with iron-oxide random
decoration 26 cm high, 11.4 cm deep. Marks: character
Sho and St Ives monogram (impressed) This is one of the
rare pots Hamada made at St. Ives. Price 3½ guineas
Bottle, 1923-6, grey-green crackle glaze with flower
and band decoration. 19.1 cm h, 18.5 cm deep. Character
Sho and St. Ives monogram (impressed). £10
Bottle, 1923, tenmoku glaze with kaki trailing. 16.9 cm
high, 21 cm deep. Character Sho and St. Ives monogram
(impressed). 25 guineas
Covered box, c. 1929, tenmoku glaze with kaki markings
radiating out from centre in two circles. 6 cm high,
8.4 cm deep. 5 guineas
Large dish c. 1929 sand coloured glaze with brush
decoration in blue and green 10.8 cm h, 39.4 cm
diameter. 20 guineas.
Tea set (6 cups, saucers, tea pot, milk jug and sugar
bowl) exhibited 1931. Tessha over cream slip with brush
decoration. 8 guineas
Square dish, exhibited 1952, beaten, moulded, impressed
pattern along rim. Tenmoku and nuka glazes. 6.7 cm x
30.3 cm. £12
Hexagonal ash try, exhibited 1952, 3.5 x 12.4 cm. £1
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