Monday, August 25, 2014

Three Legs Visits

Mondays is Woman's Exchange day for me. The shop is closed to the public but us girles are working hard, pricing items and arranging them beautifully on the shelves so that can temp people to buy them. I honestly do try to NOT buy stuff but today I had to get this!
This teapot has the three legs and is definitely something that I have seen before! When I grew up on the Island my parents worked for a company called Rushton Ceramics. They made all kinds of items from molds and some of the items were Staffordshire reproductions based on designs and styles from the Victorian times and in somecases even earlier than that, they were mantle piece decorations like those cocker spaniel dogs and ladies in Georgian dresses, sheep and cows etc. They also made these reproduction teapots. The man is meant to be sitting on a tree stump and there was a variation of a sailor sitting on a coiled rope too. My mum informs me that they exported a lot of this stuff to America.

My dad worked for Rushton Ceramic as a potter and made hand throw water carafes with goblets among other items. But this teapot! wow there it was in someones consignment and I immediately regonised it. They are no longer made and this is from the 80's so vintage really. But what an amazing find. I can hardly believe that this is something I would find in America. The funny part is that I thought that these teapots were the worst in tack when I was growing up and didn't rate them at all. It seemed just a horrible thing to have.......well look now I have actually bought one. How the mighty have fallen.


As you can see from the base this is stamped Made in England and so it isn't a Rushton one, but never the less it is a completely unique find. When I showed it to Louie he also saw it as a quintessentially a Manx piece and wondered "who sent it to you?".............well who in deed...................nice to be nostalgic and be reminded of growing up and the Isle of Man.

Not feeling quite so far from home today. The Woman's Exchange literally never ceases to amaze and delight me. There is always something fun that comes in and this is no exception.

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