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Mc Alpine fridge ware
I have a jug with Mc Alpine on both sides and I also have a water filter? if that is what it is called. With these I also have 3 glass fridge containers rather like glass bricks but the top lifts off. Two are square, one is oblong. I'd like to know more about them. I know the jugs are not uncommon but the other things are probably rare. Photo coming.
Glenys- Number of posts : 337
Registration date : 2012-08-29
Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
what colour is your jug? Some of them go for very silly money! A blue one went for several thousand on TradeMe the other week.
Cat-a-lat- Number of posts : 1039
Location : Palmerston North
Registration date : 2012-02-15
Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
Ev hasn't posted the photo yet but they are white. There is a blue jug on T Me today at $2900!!!!!! and it's slightly damaged. I've seen white jugs go for about $3-400 but it's the filter water dispenser thing I'd like to know more about.
Just in case you're interested - I don't intend to sell them just yet!
Just in case you're interested - I don't intend to sell them just yet!

Glenys- Number of posts : 337
Registration date : 2012-08-29
Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
The one I saw went for just over $3000! Also with a couple of nibbles.
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Cat-a-lat- Number of posts : 1039
Location : Palmerston North
Registration date : 2012-02-15
Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
Here are the photos that Glenys sent -


Which piece is the backstamp from Glenys?
That's the first McAlpine filter photo we have seen on here


Which piece is the backstamp from Glenys?
That's the first McAlpine filter photo we have seen on here

Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
All my collection is packed up while we live in a bus! Fortunately I photographed it as I packed it. I have no idea which piece the backstamp comes from. However I am quite convinced it is CL and came with a fridge.
Glenys- Number of posts : 337
Registration date : 2012-08-29
Re: Mc Alpine fridge ware
I was just looking at a McAlpine jug on trademe and when I checked the back stamp I noticed it was a vitrified stamp:
[url=http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Crown-Lynn/Jugs/auction-725755533.htm]http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Crown-Lynn/Jugs/auction-725755533.htm[/url]
This prompted me to check my own and sure enough it too had the same. It had never occurred to me before why it was not crazed but now I know. I see too that the frig tank above also has a vitrified mark.
I may be confusing McAlpine jugs and tankard jugs here as the latter were both earthenware and vitrified and I have seen some of THEM crazed, indicating that they are earthenware examples.
Question is, were all McAlpines vitrified?
Do they have a shape number?
[url=http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Crown-Lynn/Jugs/auction-725755533.htm]http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Crown-Lynn/Jugs/auction-725755533.htm[/url]
This prompted me to check my own and sure enough it too had the same. It had never occurred to me before why it was not crazed but now I know. I see too that the frig tank above also has a vitrified mark.
I may be confusing McAlpine jugs and tankard jugs here as the latter were both earthenware and vitrified and I have seen some of THEM crazed, indicating that they are earthenware examples.
Question is, were all McAlpines vitrified?
Do they have a shape number?
Jeremy Ashford- Number of posts : 3193
Location : Whangarei, New Zealand
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