Re: Joe (Jo) Lester - Isle of Wight and West of England Pottery

by **mandrake1000** January 8th 2013, 9:32 pm

Here is my favourite fish dish:

Love it ...

by **Potty** January 9th 2013, 3:01 pm

Bird Dish:

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by **Eclectic-Dorset** April 30th 2013, 11:35 am

An unusual carved lampbase Niton iow.
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by **mandrake1000** May 26th 2013, 12:48 pm

Latest 2 purchases from the well-known online auction site.
Both were advertised with the same listing-text except one turned out to be half the size of the other!! Next time I will request the sizes BEFORE purchasing lol Rolling Eyes

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by **philpot** May 26th 2013, 3:07 pm

And the pin dishes are worth about £2-£5.
Why?
Lovely stuff.
Just baffles me!

by **Eclectic-Dorset** May 26th 2013, 3:27 pm

Seems to be verry cheap at present but i am sure one day it will find its niche Market .

by **dantheman** May 26th 2013, 3:39 pm

smart people would buy now as prices are bound to rise dramatically

by **NaomiM** May 26th 2013, 3:47 pm

Seems a marmite thing to me. You can pick them up for under a fiver and sell them on ebay for £10-£20 but they're too quirky to be worth more than that.
There's a dealer who prices hers at £30-£40 at local fairs, but she never seems to sell any.

by **Potty** May 26th 2013, 5:14 pm

Prices overall have been rising, but many still go for hardly anything.

I expect this is partly due to people bidding on the odd one they like, rather than actual collectors. I think most of us collectors are tight! Big Laughter

I'd have to disagree about them being "too quirky", they are quirky but most people seem to like them.

by **NaomiM** May 26th 2013, 5:42 pm

Maybe it's just me, then. It's one of the few things I've not bothered with, even when I've seen them for 50p.

by **Potty** May 26th 2013, 5:46 pm

We have quite a few guests here and the IoW pieces are the only thing people tend to universally like Happy

The higher value studio pieces I have mostly get funny looks Shock

by **Potty** May 26th 2013, 6:26 pm

I mainly collect the decorated dishes, but the small vases / jugs etc can look nice together in my opinion.

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Mostly Island Pottery Studio - Joe Lester, but a couple Alum Bay - Joseph Lester and Totland Pottery - Kenneth Scotcher.

by **Potty** May 26th 2013, 6:48 pm

mandrake1000 wrote:Latest 2 purchases from the well-known online auction site.
Both were advertised with the same listing-text except one turned out to be half the size of the other!! Next time I will request the sizes BEFORE purchasing lol

Much better pictures than they were listed with Excellent

I like them, had I known the orange one was a smaller version I may have bid Big Laughter

Out of interest if the one of the left a Ken Scotcher piece?

by **Potty** May 31st 2013, 6:51 am

Not all by Joe Lester, but the majority of them are and they are all in his "Lester Style" of decoration or adapted from it.

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Some of the pots in this picture are by:

Kenneth Scotcher
Donald Beckley
Joseph Lester (Joe's Son)
Martin Gilchrist
Jack Manning

Oh and a box of 1960's fireworks... with most of the contents Big Laughter

Including a jumping jack geek

by **NaomiM** August 6th 2013, 2:13 pm

Well, since I was on the IoW, I couldn't pass up a couple of pieces of IoW pottery.

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by **Potty** August 6th 2013, 4:33 pm

I like the owl Happy

by **NaomiM** August 6th 2013, 5:30 pm

Me too.

There was tons of the stuff in the antiques shops, but I liked the cheeky owl and inscription on this one.

by **denbydump** June 7th 2014, 11:24 pm

Oh dear, some other obsessive IOWters. I have many hundreds of pieces, from
Saunders/Scotcher/Reiley/Beckley/Lester/yarmouth/yellowsands/ etc Where do I start?

Anyway a nice Jo Lester plate 9.5 in diameter.

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by **Potty** June 8th 2014, 12:54 am

Looking forward to seeing the pictures Most Excellent

by **denbydump** June 8th 2014, 12:45 pm

Well when I say hundreds, I really mean hundreds. Most boxed up somewhere, so
maybe just a few of the more unusual bigger bits, as most are the little pots and
dishes like you have already shown.

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by **NaomiM** June 8th 2014, 1:25 pm

A Reilly plaque (of a cockerel, I think) went for a lot of money on ebay last week. Shock

admittedly it was very nice.

by **brin mcardle** June 8th 2014, 1:26 pm

BLIMEY !!

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