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How did we start?
We started collecting in 1995 when Jacqui purchased the two pieces shown below for £5 at a car boot fair.
Our original web site started up under the host name of Spike-Jessie (which is also our ebaY id) at the beginning of 1999. At that time we lived in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, but are now located in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
How do we display them?
The picture below is one wall in our Dining room, the wall to the left has thin-wall mould blown soda vases and the wall opposite has more Whitefriars plus Scandinavian and German glass. Our living room has a wall with Stennett-Wilson candle holders and our Kitchen is full or Dartington and more Whitefriars round the window sills. Our landing has more Whitefriars and after that we have another 8 large boxes of Whitefriars and Dartington in our Attic and a walk in larder full of various glass including Whitefriars.
You may be interested to know that I was in the Scouts as a lad, and during my entire time in the organisation I only achieved one badge - Collecting!
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From top to bottom, left to right: Aubergine, Tangerine, Gold / Sky Blue / Aqua /Ruby, Pewter, Meadow Green, Kingfisher, Sage Green. |
If I was clever enough to set up a web-cam of my landing, this is what it would look like at the moment (you will have to imagine it going dark at night). It really does catch the sun there! |
Some pictures from our collection
Mixed Group
Kingfisher Basket-weave slab vase (pattern 9667 10½", uncommon in this colour); Aubergine bark textured bowl (8" wide - pattern 9687); Tangerine Nuts/Bolts Slab vase (pattern 9668 10½"); Meadow green 'Bamboo' slab vase (pattern 9669 8"); Kingfisher Shouldered vase (pattern 9678 9½"); Aubergine 'Mobile phone' vase (pattern 9670 6½"); Tangerine drunken brick (pattern 9673 8¼"); Aubergine 'Cucumber' vase (pattern 9679 11½").
Drunken Bricklayers
One of our favourite shapes.
Large Bricks 13" high, pattern 9672:
Small Bricks 8.5" high, pattern 9673:
Aubergine Cinnamon Meadow Pewter
Kingfisher Tangerine Indigo
Banjo (or Thr'penny bit) 12" high, pattern 9681
Willow Cinnamon Pewter
Indigo Kingfisher Tangerine
Bark vases (logs)
We have a great variety of these, they came in three basic sizes, Small (6" high, pattern 9689), Medium (7.5" high, pattern 9690), Large (9" high, pattern 9691). There is also an Extra Large with a fluted bottom at 10.5" high. Here are two examples in rarer colours, Medium lilac and Small sage.
Some other bark type vases, Small finger vase 5¾" and Large tapered finger vase 6¾".
Meadow Green
Our favourite colour is Meadow Green. We now have an example of every textured vase designed by Geoffrey Baxter that was made in Meadow Green.
Chess vases (pattern 9817, 5.75" high)
Onion vases (pattern 9758, 5.25" high)
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Dimple slab (pattern 9762, 4.75" high)
Meadow
Concentric or TV screen or Geometric circles (pattern 9677, 7" high)
Very common in Kingfisher, Tangerine etc, very rare in Aubergine and Meadow Green.
Pewter Aubergine Kingfisher Cinnamon Tangerine Willow Indigo
Totem Pole (pattern 9671, 10.5")
Indigo Willow Meadow Pewter Tangerine Aubergine Kingfisher
Volcano (pattern 9717, 7" high)
Cucumber (pattern 9679, 11.5" high)
Triangle (pattern 9674, 6.5" high)
