Cornishware talk! June 2007
Selection of Items appearing on eBay this weekend. We continue to keep up with what we can given family and work demands. Stratford is regularly restocked with items that don;t get to appear on here, so if you are passing by do drop in. As usual we continue to supply preorders as we find them, and answer queries. A sneak preview on one item shortly to appear on eBay.....
Previous pictures........
November 2006
24th November 2006: A large number of items have been sold and are pending sale. We have removed a significant number of these from the site and will highlight more over the next week. We are currently adding some more items too so watch for changes too. We are changing stock available in Stratford in the run up to Christmas so visitors will get a chance to see some different pieces. This may mean a delay in checking availablity of stock there as I can only get in a maximum of twice a week.
Last posting dates for Overseas Delivery by Christmas are rapidly appraoching! These are as follows:
Another jar that was sourced and didn't appear on the site for sale.
3rd November 2006: We have been busy listing some bits on eBay. There is a large selection being listed over the next three weeks. You can view our current auctions under our selling ID of cornishwaresearch. Quite a few pieces have gone/are pending this month and we have started to mark them up as sold. There are pieces ready and waiting to upload too.
Christmas is approaching so for overseas buyers it's time to start thinking about things as the final dates for posting are only a few weeks away. October 2006
21st October 2006: Half term! With 3 new courses to teach it's been a frantic time at work. Problems have arisen again with regard to e-mails. If you haven't got good antivirus protection and frequently check for spyware please do it! Our e-mail address has been scanned from someones address book (we don't leave messages on guest books so it's not that, and our antivirus and other seccurity measures all showed the computer was clean here). This has led to spammers using it as a return address, and we get bombarded with the e-mails that the firewalls have blocked. Fortunately we have managed to set up a diversion for all but specifically named e-mails and that has reduced to almost nothing the bouncebacks we now get. You may find that if you send us a mail from work we may get our reply blocked. What we will do now is put a message on here for you. This should now be a rare occurrance instead of standard as it has been for a bit.
On the Cornish Ware front things have been busy. We were able to supply a rarity on one persons request list that hasn't been seen before: A great RED AND WHITE "MILK" Jug. Other items that are currently being offered off site include Treacle, Mixed Fruit, Dried Parsley, and a large Lard. These may become available in the future, if not I'll put pictures on the site so collectors can view them.
The centre continues to expand in the range of articles that are sold from the room. We now have a good selection of T G Green, Carn, Midwinter, Portmeirion, Denby, Studio Pottery including Bitossi, Isle of Wight, Celtic Pottery, Winchcombe, Poole, Bob Dawe and Louis Hudson. There is an army of Smurfs arriving this week too! 13th August 2006: I have the kids all this week so won't be making as many updates. Navy Coffee Pot is reserved pending sale, and Sans Serif Pepper Shaker is now sold. Good pieces that are currently reserved pending a previous request include the following two items. Should they not be required they will then go onto the main site. Registering your requirements always puts you at the front of the queue!
7th August 2006:Pictures and link pages added for three new items on the Gold page, two with green shield backstamps. Descriptions to follow.
6th August 2006 (later...)Two rare 1970's Navy pieces have been added to the other colours page, a coffee pot and storage jar. Also the Cornish Tea and Coffee Pot page now contains all colours so you can compare. There will be specialist pages for each colourway too, with Yellow and Gold already online. Milk Jug description now added.
6th August 2006: Expect changes and additions all this week. Yesterday descriptions for the two sloped JO fruit bowls were added (we have another to add now too), and a Streamline Cherries Spice Jar. Today pictures for an excellent Pint "MILK" Jug have been added, description to follow. Plenty more to come, including some nice rare bits.
YVONNE - have sent you another e-mail through - check your filtered messages folder if it hasn't arrived at your end!
July 2006
28th July 2006: Back doing some updating after a frantic term at school and some more e-mail problems. Should you receive any spam mail that is linked to our address please let us know as one of those automatic robots has managed to use our mail to hide the address of the real source of some spam mailings.
27th March 2006: Starch details added to storage jar page. Congratulations to Reading FC on getting to The Premiership! It was a great day out and I shall indulge in a picture!
23rd March 2006: Advanced notice, while I can, of downtime when the website will not be available due to site changes by the host. Monday, March 27, Approx. 120 minutes starting at 10:00 PM PST Tuesday, March 28, Approx. 90 minutes starting at 10:00 PM PST Wednesday, March 29, Approx. 90 minutes starting at 10:00 PM PST. This shouldn't be too much of a problem to UK visitors as it's during our night.
22nd March 2006: The last month has seen both my lads struggling with illness. Our eldest has, in particular, had problems with both asthma and tonsillitis. The web hosts have also entered into a beta phase for testing of "behind the scenes" layout and features that we are trialling before it all goes live shortly. If you are passing Stratford you will see from next week a new cabinet full of studio pottery that will be up and running next Tuesday. We are completing all the ticketing for these items at the moment. I'll update some of the sold items now (luckily most are non-web listed thankfully!).
Saturday sees a possible milestone in the history of the football club I have followed for over 30 years. Watch for the result of Leicester City v Reading, I hope to be watching the moment that Reading make it to the top flight of English football for the first time ever since their formation in 1871! February 2006
24th February 2006: Just about emerging from a never ending supply of flu medications, throat lozenges, and cough medicines. I'll be adding more info shortly, although I won't be "full steam ahead" so to speak. This weeks parcels left this morning and will be with you all Monday. Watch for updates through the day, I'll summerise on here later on.
21st February 2006: Those that have spoken to me over the last few days will know I am suffering a bit at the moment with the darn cold/cough/sore throat etc that is doing the rounds in The Midalnds, hence the lack of recent updates. I also took in a pallet of stock from TG Green yesterday that needed sorting. This included many discontinued specials and items, as well as current specials. For those of you that don't know yet, the recent cornish colours collection has already seen one colour being discontinued, yellow. If you want to complete collections you need to buy from shops now.
18th February 2006: Jugs and Butter/Cheese/Box pages are now organised, linked and live with full descrptions for the items on there. There are many more items waiting to be pictured to go on all of the pages that are linked and these will be added to over time. We are continuing to add descriptions over the day.
17th February 2006: In between moving the lounge around and entertaining the kids, descriptions are being added as they are being written, so keep an eye out for the bits being filled in, and extra items being loaded.
15th February 2006: 9 more items fully photographed today including GRANULATED SUGAR (value item), SAGE (value item), JO MILK JUG WITH A GREEN SHIELD, FRIDGE JUG, HUGE JO BOWL, LARGE JO SLOPED FRUIT BOWL, JO MIXING BOWL, CORNISH CREAM JUG, and MINI CREAMER WITH EARLY SHIELD. If any are of immediate interest please enquire and I'll prioritise the description and pages. More to follow later. A bit later.....Most of the galleries are on from today. Items can be found on Clearance, Storage, Premium and JO pages. I'll see if I can get the Jugs page live too.
14th February 2006: More descriptions and a couple of more galleries up on the Judith Onions page. One piece gone already since the description went up earlier! I have a chance to do some more pictures tomorrow morning and will add more descriptions during the day/evening. More items went into Stratford today too.
13th February 2006: We have completed and uploaded the descriptions for the new items on the Yellow Page. Streamline jars have also now been fully described and are uploaded. Judith Onions pictures that needed redoing have been done and will be uploaded tonight together with the ones for the FRIDGE BOX, CONDIMENT JAR AND TALL SALT AND PEPPER that didn't get uploaded last night. There should be more update information added later.
A BIT LATER!Full descriptions and galleries for Fridge Box and Tall Salt and Pepper Cruets added to the JO page, together with description for the Kidney Cruet Base. Other pictures have mostly been filled in.
12th February 2006: Judith Onions Page Live as of 21.20. Initial pieces are now on the page with links to galleries running. Missing pictures and descriptions will be filled in and more of the many other items we have will be added.
12th February 2006: 10 items of Judith Onions have been photographed fully today and should appear later on the JO page when it goes live. We have a lot more JO to do yet! Photographed today are Large and Small lipped Bowls, Ceramic Lid Caddy, 2 x Tea Jars, Sugar Jar, Kidney Cruet Base, Condiment Jar, Butter Dish, and a Rarer Sugar Bowl. Please enquire if you wish to see the pictures.
11th February 2006: More photographs for links on the General Page have been completed and are now online. These include the pictures for Jugs, Butters, Judith Onions and a new Shakers one following a request for me to include other colours. Also the outstanding photographs have been completed. More descriptions being written now, hopefully there will be more items on later. A bit later on......The 4 mugs that were added are now fully described and have a live gallery.
9th February 2006: Full descriptions for the 3 storage jars added yesterday now online.
8th February 2006: BROWN SUGAR 135.00 GBP, COCOA-NUT 135.00 GBP, AND DEMERARA SUGAR 115.00 GBP have got their full galleries up this evening with the descriptions being written now. I'm a bit stacked up with stuff for school this week, so things have been limited.....but....roll on Friday for a bit more time at half-term (kids permitting). B.PEPPER Spice Jar has been sold.
6th February 2006: Full picture galleries for another 14 items have been completed and uploaded today. The link pages are currently being worked on and the descriptions will then follow. They will be put online in groups of 3 or 4 as they are finished. UPDATE: 4 MORE MUGS ON THE MUG PAGE, TWO PIECES ON YELLOW, 3 ON CLEARANCE. A GREAT VALUE COCOA-NUT AND DEMERARA SUGAR WILL BE APPEARING ON THE STORAGE JARS, AND I'LL LEAVE THE EGG CUPS FOR LATER. DESCRIPTIONS TO FOLLOW ON TOGETHER WITH THE ODD PICTURE THAT NEEDS REDOING.
4th February 2006: Details added for some of the mugs and milk horns, others currently being worked on. More pictures of egg cups are also being taken today. Further updates later. Even more descriptions and items have now been added to the Mugs page. Hopefully still more to come tonight! All mugs added to the mugs page so far have now been described with full galleries. There are still many more types to complete!
2nd February 2006: Details for all the Egg Cups currently on the Egg Cup Page now fully completed. I'll try and add the Brown Sugar details and some of the Mug details later, and hopefully a jar or two! January 2006
31st January 2006: Link picture for Egg Cups now live on the General Cornish Page. Galleries up for linked items (bar a couple of pictures that need redoing). Descriptions to follow, and plenty more egg cups of all types!
Yesterday saw another first for the website, with visitors in every hour of the 24 hours online. Contributing to the statistics were visitors from the UK, France, Australia, US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. It's nearly happened a couple of times before, so thank you all for visiting and finally managing it!
30th January 2006: CHERRIES, ALL-SPICE and ALMONDS pictures, full descriptions and galleries added to the Spice Page. BISCUIT BARREL and JUDITH ONIONS TAB HANDLED COVERED SOUP full details added to Premium page. BROWN SUGAR picture and linked gallery added to Storage Jar page - description to follow. We hope to complete another 6 items fully tomorrow.
29th January 2006: All the galleries are linked for the items on the mug page so far, descriptions will follow. Still cataloging the large collection that came in and I've picked up a few more items this weekend too. Many thanks to all of you that have visited the site this month. We have recorded the greatest number of hits in any month of the five years that we have been on line!
28th January 2006: A few more mug pictures on the mugs pages. One little chap is on the mend now so hopefully we can shortly be adding items at a faster rate again.
24th January 2006: Mug Page link from the General Cornish page is now live. I've put pictures up of 6 types so far, others will follow. The gallery links and descriptions will then follow on - a certain little chaps tonsilitis permitting. Details are available.
23rd January 2006: Work is continuing on preparing the mugs and cruets. As an idea of the work this is taking we have over 20 DIFFERENT TYPES/STYLES of mug available, let alone the multiples of them! Please enquire if you are after a particular type of mug, we may have it! As before time is limited due to Mitchell's ongoing illness and a heavy work load at the moment for school. As and when it is possible we are working on adding stuff asap.
21st January 2006: PM. Descriptions added for all the coffee pots. Link pictures for cruets and mugs added to the general page - details to follow.
Found this the other day - sand and green? Does anyone else have any as it's the first we've seen.
20th January 2006: My eldest has been ill with tonsilitis so updates were hit. There will be updates over the weekend as I can fit some in so keep watching.
17th January 2006: Streamline gallery links now live.
15th January 2006: Streamline page has been put up. Just the main pictures, links and descriptions to follow. Still sorting out the big take in of stock. Clearance items will not appear here, the will only be in Stratford. I'll try and get descriptions up soon for coffee and tea pots plus the Streamline. The Tax Office will be pleased to know I've nearly finished my tax return this weekend too!
11th January 2006: Photos and Galleries are uploaded for Tea and Coffee Pots, the link for these is now live. Descriptions will be done when I've finished my marking either later on, or tomorrow. There are three more items to be uploaded yet for this section. Streamline Pages may be live by the end of the weekend and there are now more shakers to go on! Also busy washing and entering into stock the new stock that has arrived this week.
9th January 2006: Link picture for Tea and Coffee Pots done. Full photo galleries done for four different styles of coffee pot today. These will follow as soon as possible. Judith Onions Sugar Shaker added to the Shakers page - the Flour was sold yesterday before I could upload it! Please remember most of our items never make it to the website. New stock coming in tomorrow that will need sorting, but it does include some nice bits.
8th January 2006: I need some feedback please! I have been trying to find new ideas for the site and have been "having a play" offline. I have put in two test pages - THIS ONE and GENERAL CORNISH. I'd be grateful if you could have a click through these and give feedback on the effect. Many thanks!
7th January 2006: Bottles selection is now live from the General Cornish page. Pictures are now available for the following Streamline Storage Jars: Bread Crumbs, Castor Sugar, Lump Sugar, Coffee and Sago. Please enquire. A page and the relevant links are currently under construction. Details of Judith Onions Shakers available also a second fixed top Flour. These will be uploaded over the next few days. Tomorrow will see more stock of Domino and Cornish Ware going into Stratford.
6th January 2006: Two additions to the Premium Page this evening. I've also sorted out the bottles that are available for sale to photograph tomorrow, together with the other shakers that were collected from Stratford on Thursday. I may also try and complete a Streamline page depending on time.
5th January 2006: Two more items to the Gold page. Globe Teapot added to the Clearance page. Shakers selection put into Stratford, these are now indicated as such on the Shakers page. We are picking up a large selection of pieces next week and will add items over the next few weeks. Hopefully tomorrow night there will be more items added to the Premium page.
3rd January 2006: More additions to the shakers this morning. Also another shaker this afternoon and changes/additions to the Gold page.
2nd January 2006 (again!): Items added to the Yellow and White page this evening.
2nd January 2006: 69 photographs have been uploaded now for the new items that will appear on the Gold, Yellow, Shakers and Premium pages over the next few days. I'm working on the descriptions and link pages now and will add pieces in pairs as they are completed. Y10 books to mark tonight too!
1st January 2006: HAPPY NEW YEAR! The pages are up for testing on the General Cornish Page with a Shakers link and a couple of fixed top linking off. I've now added an example of each shaker in the sans serif style. We have serif available too, but you'll have to wait a bit for those! (Do ask if you want details). It seems to work fine - let me know if it's not at your end please.
31st December: Four more pieces added to Domino page, complete with link pages.
30th December: Hope you've all had a good Christmas. Managed to spend a day taking some pictures and labelling up some Blue Domino as the BBC Homes and Antiques feature was published on the 27th. There are quite a few additions to the Domino Page, with many more to come. We have also increased our Domino stock in Stratford, as well as adding more Cornish Ware and Midwinter following the pre-Christmas sales. There will shortly be a re-vamp of the General stock page as we have also photographed a significant number of items for this already and are currently working on descriptions and writing the link pages. Keep watching for updates - there should also be some more clearance items shortly too. Here's to 2006!
19th December: Congratulations to our school band Nizlopi! UK #1. It is available to download for overseas visitors (they count in the sales too via your favourite download site). If you want to listen as you haven't heard it yet go to www.jcbsong.co.uk where you can view the video too.
12th September: Great to have met so many of you at the T G Green open day in Swadlincote on Saturday. Many thanks for your kind words about the website and quality of the stock. If you were thinking about the handled vinegar or wooden salt box they have gone now. Today has seen the introduction of a clearance page that is highlighted in red on the menu. As with all new pictures added there is a gallery for each item. There will continue to be some clearance items that are only available through the Antiques Centre. We will also continue to add more items to each page as we get time. It usually takes me a couple of weeks to get back into the routine after the school holidays! If there is anything you are looking for that is not listed, do check with us as we have hundreds of items available.
We have been busy adding to our own collection and the picture above shows a selection of some of the colours that can be found in our kitchen. That's right, you are seeing correctly, that is a green jar with an early church backstamp. It is exactly similar in style to the orange ones of that period of which at least two are known of.
HENLEY STREET ANTIQUES CENTRE, HENLEY STREET, STRATFORD UPON AVON, WARWICKSHIRE. We have expanded our outlet at Stratford and you can now find a wide selection of Cornish Ware and other TG Green designs. In addition to this there is also a wide range of Portmeirion, Carn Pottery, Denby, Midwinter and Studio Pottery as a result of teaming up with another keen TG Green collector and dealer, Chris Marks. There will also be a new website that links to this to market the full range of merchandise. There will always be special items and offers that only appear in the room for those who have visited. LIMITED EDITION BOILED EGG
We have some pairs of our personal Limited Edition Egg Cups available (although not as many as someone has been suggesting!) Featured in the second Friends of Cornish Blue newsletter by Mason Cash, and the British Egg Cup Collectors newsletter, hey are only available directly from us, one per order, and your name appears on your personal certificate.
Priced are as follows (including postage):
UK: 35.00 GBP Europe: 37.50 GBP US & Canada: 38.50 GBP NZ & Australia: 39.50 GBP
Requesting specific items:
Please remember to request specific items. Below are jars that were sourced for a customer and never appeared on the site.
Now sold but enjoy the picture still! Washing Soda.
Just to clarify why we don't believe in shopping carts and check out on the internet. We like to get to know you and personal communication and negotiation are by far a more pleasant experience than an order e-mail arriving! This is also why we don't use the check out system if we sell anything on eBay.
Of this selection only the Parsley remains! The picture stays on for you to enjoy!
Taking in the sunshine in the garden! Just to prove to some of our overseas collectors that the weather has been super here! For Australians especially - the garden is based on the Chelsea Garden that the Australian Wine Producers used to promote their fine wares!
As very fussy cornish ware collectors ourselves, we know what people look for in a piece. We continue to strive to offer the largest selection of Cornish Ware and other TG Green designs from a specialist outlet. We will not compromise quality though, and if that means that something is not available or not sourced, so be it. You know that items purchased from us will be of top quality.
You are never charged for packing and your items are sent with polychips and plenty of bubblewrap. All packing materials are recycled as much as possible and we source recycled polychips ourselves.
Have fun collecting your Cornish Ware and other patterns.
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