Friday, December 22, 2006

Herr W the collector, Part 1

Yes i´m a collector, i guess some are and i got it bad, i collect all kinds of stuff and the funny thing about collecting is that when you have collected for some time and look at what you have bought over the years it tell not only the story about you collection but also the story about you and how your focus have changed and how you have managed to specialise with in the a curtain thing, like me; i started collecting tableware from the 70s then i went to collect only one label and now i only collect this one decor which you can see from the pic.

The thing with this decor is that i don´t know anything about it except from the info i can find underneath the teapot:
UNIQUE,
HAND PAINTED,
EGERSUND
NORWAY
DESIGN:
K. BLOKK JOHANSEN
1973
DETERGEN PROOF
And that's about it. Well i know that Porsgrunn Porselen bought Egersund in the mid70s and had it shut down.
I don´t know what pieces this set holds and i can´t find it anywhere either, so everytime i find a new piece it´s like x-mas and it was when i on Wednesday entered fretex in Kirkenes and found two pieces that i didn´t know existed; a bowl for sugar and two coffee cups, from before i had only teacups, and those of you who know me well know that i´ll rather have bad coffee instead of good tea, so i was nice to finally find coffee cups.


What will i find next?
nobody knows.
but if anyone knows anything about this decor please let me know.

yours
Herr W

5 comments:

Reeta said...

Oh how beautiful they are! I love them! They really look a little bit like Arabia. My favourite one is that water (milk/juice/etc) can. It's just so adorable! What about the other pot, is it for coffee or tea? (For tea I hope! :)

Somehow I do understand collectors but I have just lived too many years with my stepfather who's biggest collector ever. I hope there would be somekind of limit what he collects but he just likes to collect everything: stamps, coins, butterflys, lps & cds, old toys, old photos, furnitures, labels, paintings, books... you name it. There will be a day when we can't find him under all that stuff.

Well, I do support music-collecting. And books. And dvds. And beautiful tablewares. And... Ok, I do understand why people collect stuff, but myself, I try to fight back.

And that was just part 1...?

Herr W said...

hi reeta, yes its a teapot and a nice one it is.
i don´t know about this collecting; i only know that i again and again find my self googling and buying new stuff. i would fight it if i could but i lost to this mania long time ago,

stay tuned for part 2

Lilly said...

OH MY LORD! I am in love! :-D

Herr W said...

yes, i´ve been in love with these "Psycedelic aples" ever since i found the first two teacups,

Lilly said...

I can see why, Herr W. They are outstandingly awesome [by the way, I don't know if you can say that, but it sounds good, I think!]