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Polishing up on East Anglia
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Book Reviews - 17 February 2005 |
East Anglian Silver edited by Christopher Hartop, published by John Adamson, 90 Hertford Street, Cambridge CB4 3AQ
ISBN 0952432226 £14.95pb
Tel: 01223 313 717
e-mail: jpap@netcomuk.co.uk
NORWICH Cathedral Treasury was one of the first cathedral treasuries to be set up in the 1970s; the better to house and display cathedral silver as well as historic plate from within each cathedral’s diocese. In Norwich’s case this includes a beaker from the Royal Collection by Elizabeth Haslewood (fl.1684?-1715), Norwich’s only woman silversmith of the Stuart period, and a Charles II tankard by her husband, Arthur Haslewood II (1638-1684) from the Gregory Peck collection, never previously exhibited.
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Putting us back on track with racks...
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Book Reviews - 08 September 2004 |
British Ceramic Toast Racks for Collectors by Peter and Margaret Crumpton, published by Richard Dennis, The Old Chapel, Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset TA19 OLE email: books@richarddennispublications.com ISBN 090368585X £18 sb
WE’VE long had a thing about toast, that peculiarly British way of serving bread and a primary comfort food. Think Marmite soldiers dunked into soft-boiled eggs and wintry afternoons toasting bread over an open fire. As cookery writer Nigel Slater says in his book Toast – the Story of a Boy’s Hunger, “It’s impossible not to to love someone who makes toast for you... as your teeth break through the rough toasted crust and soak into the doughy cushion of white bread underneath... you’re smitten. Putty in their hands.” For real lovers of toast there is also that essential piece of tableware – the toast rack.
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No-gun slogans and other mottos
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Book Reviews - 08 September 2004 |
Badges by Philip Atwood, published by the British Museum Press. ISBN 0714150142 £7.99sb
AMONG the British Museum’s priceless antiquities is the museum’s collection of some 12,000 badges. A small, hard-to-find exhibition, showing at the museum until January 16, presents just a tiny fraction of this archive.
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Setting out his stall of Victorian mementos
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Book Reviews - 08 September 2004 |
Victorian China Fairings: The Collectors’ Guide by Derek H. Jordan, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, ISBN 1851494464, £35hb.
WITH a book dedication by the author to “all my non-collecting friends who I have bored silly over the years”, Derek Jordan has a massive private collection of these little Victorian/Edwardian china ornaments with their droll comments on life, buying his first three fairings at the Folkestone Antiques Fair.
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Vital non-essentials
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Book Reviews - 08 September 2004 |
Eccentric Contraptions by Maurice Collins, published by David & Charles Limited. ISBN 0715318217 £9.99sb
OUR hugely busy lives are made more bearable by labour-saving inventions. For every one that made it from drawing board to retailer there were hundreds more that didn’t catch on. With a subtitle of “and amazing gadgets, gizmos and thingamabobs”, this is a pictorial illustration of some 100 extremely wacky and ingenious inventions which Maurice Collins has built up over 30 years, alongside his collection of posters and printed ephemera.
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Your guide to the four Rs
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Book Reviews - 08 September 2004 |
Pot-Lids and other Coloured Printed Staffordshire Wares: Reference and Price Guide by KV Mortimer, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, ISBN 1851494383, £35hb.
ALL the literature on pot lids is now well over 20 years old – the ACC’s last book on the subject, The Price Guide to Pot-Lids and other Under-Glazes, was published in 1970 and again in 1980.
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History of glass gets a dash of fresh flair
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Book Reviews - 10 August 2004 |
The Decanter: An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650 by Andy McConnell, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, ISBN 1851494286, £45hb.
WHAT more can I add that has not already been said by the great and good in the glass world and cannily published here on the back page? “...Definitive work on the subject...”, “worthwhile insight into a subject previously overlooked by connoisseurs...”, “authoritative work...”, “standard book on the subject for the next generation...”, “serious contribution to the subject..”, and “..like fine wine, this book is both rich and fruity.” And it’s all true.
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The blue and white colours of an impassioned collector
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Book Reviews - 10 August 2004 |
Godden’s Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain by Geoffrey Godden, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, ISBN 1851494480, £65hb.
THERE’S something old-worldly or maybe other-worldy about Geoffrey Godden. In this mighty work published this year, the first major work for 30 years, and which pays particular attention to Phillips’ three sales of the Watney Collection in 1999 and 2000, 75-year-old Mr Godden writes a chapter called On Forming a Collection which is written from his perspective as a collector of some 60 years. Starting with 18th century English porcelain, it is as precise as it is knowledgable.
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Tale of a family-run pottery making sales from chasing ales
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Book Reviews - 10 August 2004 |
Joseph Kishere and the Mortlake Potteries by Jack Howarth and Robin Hildyard, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, ISBN 1851494626, £25hb.
THE only published history of the Mortlake potteries has been a 12-page booklet written by John Eustace Anderson more than 100 years ago. Now, the V&A’s Robin Hildyard has expanded and extended the potteries’ story following much family research by Jack Howarth.
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