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Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
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Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
With a curious mark... surely not? In the free bin at my local op-shop...
Cat-a-lat- Number of posts : 1043
Location : Palmerston North
Registration date : 2012-02-15
Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
Picks myself up* ..... It's a Len Castle spice jar Cat !!!!!!
How lucky that you saw it and picked it up ...... meant to be methinks
How lucky that you saw it and picked it up ...... meant to be methinks
Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
So... Shall I tell you how my daughter dropped the bag it was in (unwrapped) on the footpath?
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Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
I didn't realise what it was at first, as initially I thought it was T C, it wasn't til I looked closer and saw that was just the way the glaze had run around the mark, and even then I didn't twig until I was looking up Len's marks for another reason entirely (I saw another LC marked pot today, in a teardrop surround) and suddenly the penny dropped that this pot was a possible match.
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Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
That's an excellent photo of Len's mark, so I've put it into the Gallery
LC in a teardrop surround usually means Bruce Lissant-Clayton
http://newzealandpottery.forumotion.net/gallery/New-Zealand-Potters-Marks/IJKL/lissant-clayton-bruce-pic_3861.htm
LC in a teardrop surround usually means Bruce Lissant-Clayton
http://newzealandpottery.forumotion.net/gallery/New-Zealand-Potters-Marks/IJKL/lissant-clayton-bruce-pic_3861.htm
Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
Thank you on both counts (I took about 10 photos of the mark, and that was the best)! Yes, the Bruce Lissant-Clayton mark is the exact one I saw today on a fairly large jar/cannister with a handle, presumably to hang it from. Knew I had seen the mark before, but at that point I got distracted from continuing the search for it, by realising what my little curry pot might be! lol
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Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
Len Castle had so many variations in his marks over the years and we only have a few of them. I must add a few more myself to the Gallery. I'm buzzing too at your find and really if there is one there must be others floating around down there, as who only has one spice pot when they came in sets!
Re: Lovely little spice pot find that happens to be Len Castle!!
The thought had occurred to me - this op-shop has a sister shop down the other end of town and sometimes you do find different parts of a set split between the shops - I think due to being inadvertently separated during the sorting/pricing process down at the 'workshop'. Hopefully not a case of the curry pot being the only surviving pot from the set.
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