Poole Pottery 1960-1980 Part One

A fab display of 49ers. I very much like this one... who painted it?

Date mark type 47, 15 and Aegean marks only

cycladelic wrote:A fab display of 49ers. I very much like this one... who painted it?

Many thanks cycladelic. This plate is one of my favourites too - a very unusual design. It was decorated by Patricia Wells who was at Poole from 1959 to 1973. The backstamp shows it to be post 1966 and the colourway suggests it was decorated pre-1969 when the "standardized" colours were implemented. Glad you like it.

mandrake1000 wrote:

cycladelic wrote:A fab display of 49ers. I very much like this one... who painted it?

Many thanks cycladelic. This plate is one of my favourites too - a very unusual design. It was decorated by Patricia Wells who was at Poole from 1959 to 1973. The backstamp shows it to be post 1966 and the colourway suggests it was decorated pre-1969 when the "standardized" colours were implemented. Glad you like it.

From the design, I would have guessed it was an 8-inch shape 3. Thanks for the details.

I like the one bottom right in that picture

Potty wrote:I like the one bottom right in that picture

I really like that one too Potty ... you lot seem to know my tastes!!

Many thanks cycladelic. This plate is one of my favourites too - a very unusual design. It was decorated by Patricia Wells who was at Poole from 1959 to 1973. The backstamp shows it to be post 1966 and the colourway suggests it was decorated pre-1969 when the "standardized" colours were implemented. Glad you like it.

The footring looks to be the smallest type, which I think dates it to around 1966-67.

Here's an unsigned 49. I wonder who you think painted it.

To me it looks a bit like Carol Cutler, but it possibly predates her work.

gareth-h wrote:I have a 1973 price list. The pair of 41's had gone up to 88p already - rampant inflation in the '70's! The pair came in an oblong box same as a 361 dish.

A 5" was 50p and an 8" £1.34. Most expensive items were the 16" charger and 16" stick stand both at £7.15. Interestingly Aegean was a little more expensive at £8.50 for the charger.

There's a photo of a superb 16" Studio charger on a website - the Virtual Museum of Poole Pottery - and it states that it cost 12 guineas in 1963; one guinea being a pound a shilling, or 105p in today's New Pence. Tony Morris's wages were just 7 guineas at the time.

Using the online convertor at the thisismomonney website, 12 guineas is now about £227.

But that would mean that 7 guineas equates to £132 a week, which doesn't seem to fit the equation.

Yes, 132 quid a week. And most of that went on his board and lodgings (five guineas - leaving him just two guineas to spend).

At least that's what the Poole site states. I can believe it. Tony would have been quite young and no doubt keen to have a job in the arts.

when Tony turned up at Poole he had an old dufflecoat with no toggles or buttons, Guy took pitty on him and made him some ceramic buttons in the shape of monkey heads

one of the perks of working nights is when somebody in the US puts a studio 49er with a $40 buy it now (£26-60) . can't wait for it to turn up now

with a studio mark?

later im afraid but it has a very unusual glaze

£26.00 plus shipping from the U.S.?

must be one hell of a saucer!

l33ham180 wrote:one of the perks of working nights is when somebody in the US puts a studio 49er with a $40 buy it now (£26-60) . can't wait for it to turn up now

Can we see a pic?

still in the post

yup, still in the post. just got back from southern spain and it was hot hot hot!!!

Jane Brewer (72-75) full signature, 325mm diameter

Hi - this is my first post and my first piece of Poole - I've trawled like a novice through the internet and can't find out more than is already stamped on the bottom. The initials scratched into the base don't seem to match any of the names I've found so far. The D looks like a Diane Davis shape but then there is a T beneath and a reverse S shape to the right.

Any advice about whether my 1.99 in the charity shop was well spent much appreciated!

Welcome to the forum


I think your D is an A and the rest is a flamboyant F so Andree Fontana was the paintress.
As for value,it's worth 5 times what you paid...maybe a little more

That's great thanks - now I turn it on its side I can see the AF...

here is the studio pin dish from the US. unusual glaze? under fired over fired?? i'm not sure