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Doulton & The Barlows

Prior to the 1870s, Doulton & Co. was known mainly for its utilitarian stoneware. In 1870 Henry Doulton, son of the firm's founder, began a new art pottery venture...

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10th December 2008

Folk Art - An Introduction

The thousands of Europeans who emigrated to America in the 18th and 19th centuries took with them a rich heritage of folk art. Many of those who settled in the Lancaster, Lebanon and Buckinghamshire (Bucks) counties areas of Pennsylvania...

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10th December 2008

Pot Lids

Pot-lids are one of the earliest forms of visual advertising, being first made in the 1830s and continuing until the 1910s. Makers of all manner of products from toothpaste to meat paste and the almost amusing sounding 'bear's grease'...

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10th December 2008

George Ohr Ceramics

George Ohr, the self-styled 'mad potter of Biloxi', was a very peculiar man. As he would later recall, "When I found the potter's wheel I felt it all over like a wild duck in water"...

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9th December 2008

19thC Staffordshire Animals

For animal-loving collectors of English pottery, the last 10 years or so have been rather exciting. The market in Staffordshire animal figures from the late-18thC to the late-19thC has enjoyed an upsurge of interest and witnessed price rises...

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8th December 2008

Costume Jewelry

Style, fashion, color, ingenuity of design, quality of manufacture - they all apply to costume jewelry, as does simple wearability and, I believe, tremendous value for money. Underpinning it all, however, is a whiff of that magic and excitement...

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5th December 2008