April 9, 2015
by Aidan@Potsandpots
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A big thank you to one of our friends who managed to spot a West German Rumtopf in the 1986 film – The Golden Child. The film according to IMDb is about “a private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate”.
You can see some more information on Rumtopfs and some recipes at one of our earlier blogs here.
March 22, 2015
by Aidan@Potsandpots
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The Germans seem to celebrate Easter much more than us Brits. Driving around Germany in the weeks prior to easter you cannot avoid seeing lots of Easter trees and branches. Some within peoples houses, others in gardens. We decided to bring this tradition back to England and we have our very own Easter branch, decked out with eggs and chick bought in Germany and naturally sitting within a West German vase!
February 24, 2015
by Aidan@Potsandpots
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As we said at the start of the year in our new years resolutions post we are trying to get the website updated with the many photos we still need to add. The Bay Keramik page has now been updated with over 50 brand new forms and some new stickers. A small number of examples are show below and all the updates can be found on the Bay pages.
February 11, 2015
by Aidan@Potsandpots
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The book ‘Zimmer Pflanzen’ (Houseplants) which was first published in 1973 features a West German pottery plant pot. The 1950s style plant pot, probably designed by Ruscha Keramik appears twice with different plants.
February 1, 2015
by Aidan@Potsandpots
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Sale prices on eBay have been analysed to evaluate West German Pottery price trends. The aim is to monitor the changing value of Fat Lava pottery through analysis of UK eBay sales. The intention is that this will provide a barometer for the popularity/desirability of Fat Lava items.
It has been 8 months since we last published an update on price trends. Unfortunately in this period we have been lax in collecting the data and therefore unfortunately the time window in which the data is available has passed for four months of information. This update therefore provides values for October, November, December 2014 and January 2015 (a sample of sale prices and postage from 400 items).
To see more detail on how the values are calculated click here.