Shawnee Tales
July 2015
by Lin Romberg
Summer is here and Arizona is breaking or tying records with our heat, 112-115 and not dry, we are having high humidity with it as our monsoon season is beginning. This is the price we pay for our glorious winters.
Those of you who follow Ebay have probably noticed an increase in the listings of the dinnerware lines - fern, fern and flower as well as snowflake. Lots of interest in the lines. The match holders and salt boxes have long been favorites of mine.
The ivory salt box was a wonderful surprise from a friend.
I have a set of five mixing bowls in totally different colors, more pastel shades, that I picked up in Zanesville at Pottery Festival many years ago.
These pieces were from the Reed collection and found years ago. They also had a wonderful assortment of the snowflake teapots and cookie jars.
I would love it if some of the readers would share pictures of their dinnerware lines. I like the wave pattern line and went with the turquoise color for a set.
Have a picture of a rare Bo Peep a collector sent in - the one on the right, I have never seen with just those decals - only as the combination decals with the one on the left. Beautiful and rare!
Some of you may be following the SJames listings on Ebay - I was happy to pick up a chanticleer I had looked for over the years - the air brushed lavendar feathers with the jeweled green collar - it is the one on the right - thrilled to have them paired.
Had a chance to meet two long time Shawnee collectors this past week, Brad and Gary. We had a wonderful visit, talked a lot of Shawnee and went antiquing in this horrendous heat - I think only mall was whatI I would consider comfortably cool.
Two nice finds - a plain tulip Smiley cookie jar in mint condition that Gary took home on the plane and a Mumpy Kitty figurine that literally had all it's cold paint as if it had just come from the factory went to California.
At one of the shops I saw a beautiful orange pitcher that I am pretty sure is Valencia but have so few pieces over all my years of collecting - it looks like a larger style of the one posted on Facebook a week or more ago. At a shop not far so I could go back for it if someone is interested, I don't collect the Valencia.
On the way home after dinner our first dust storm of the season was blowing up something fierce when lightening struck a power pole one lane over - quite an explosion and I was worried the power line above us would come completely down the way it snapped - told Doug I guess that is what happens when three Shawnee collectors come together! Definitely a memorable time together. Fun to share the pottery with others who appreciate it, on occasion I have had someone over that has commented "oh, you do ceramics??" Little do they know - LOL.
Doug heard from a seller who had a problem with a gold Winnie bank that the buyer claimed the base had been touched up rather than factory fired gold trim. So many people are unaware of the differences. She accepted the return and had been unaware of the problem with it. Sometimes in a picture even those of us who have collected a long time cannot tell when something is off. The gold that is fired on is reflective versus a duller gold - sometimes a touch up or tampered pieces the gold has a coppery coloring and no mirror like finish.
Pottery Festival is this month in Zanesville, if anyone is attending we would love to hear a report of the events and any finds.
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Doug's Corner
Lin - I thought you'd never ask. This a single shelf of Fernware, plus a couple old style teapots.
I feel better now.
The Fern Bowls from the Reed collection brought top dollar on Ebay.
There is listed right now a beautiful set of snowflake mixing bowls, different colors than I have not seen before - here is a link to the listing.
As many of us do, to keep the collections manageable we go for limited pieces in some lines or specific colors in the line.
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