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Waimea Pottery mugs
Waimea Tankard after Bernard Leach
Waimea Tankard.
I picked this up in Orewa on my way down to the Cleverley opening.
![Waimea Pottery mugs Wp110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/15/65/08/71/wp110.jpg)
The Waimea Tankard looks very like a St Ives piece on trademe:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Other/Other/auction-771583573.htm
![Waimea Pottery mugs Wp210](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/15/65/08/71/wp210.jpg)
The mark is another handscrawl and different again from those I've seen on forum.
Waimea Tankard.
I picked this up in Orewa on my way down to the Cleverley opening.
![Waimea Pottery mugs Wp110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/15/65/08/71/wp110.jpg)
The Waimea Tankard looks very like a St Ives piece on trademe:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Pottery-glass/Porcelain-pottery/Other/Other/auction-771583573.htm
![Waimea Pottery mugs Wp210](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/15/65/08/71/wp210.jpg)
The mark is another handscrawl and different again from those I've seen on forum.
Jeremy Ashford- Number of posts : 3193
Location : Whangarei, New Zealand
Registration date : 2010-09-11
3 Waimea mugs
I had one mug, got two more from Kat at her garage sale.
![Waimea Pottery mugs Wpmugs10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/15/65/08/71/wpmugs10.jpg)
Kat's ones, two left in the middle photo, are marked WP, one clearly and one faintly. The third mug appears to have no mark but I think it is also a WP.
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![Waimea Pottery mugs Wpmugs10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/15/65/08/71/wpmugs10.jpg)
Kat's ones, two left in the middle photo, are marked WP, one clearly and one faintly. The third mug appears to have no mark but I think it is also a WP.
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Jeremy Ashford- Number of posts : 3193
Location : Whangarei, New Zealand
Registration date : 2010-09-11
Paul Laird Waimea Pottery
Adding a beautiful Paul Laird mug to the mix, sent to the site by the Ferret:
![Waimea Pottery mugs Waimea10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/12/53/23/96/waimea10.jpg)
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paul_l10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/12/53/23/96/paul_l10.jpg)
![Waimea Pottery mugs Waimea10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/12/53/23/96/waimea10.jpg)
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paul_l10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/12/53/23/96/paul_l10.jpg)
Paul Laird (I thought I had posted this already)
I'd been watching this set of mugs for a while and got it into my head that they were the work of Paul Laird, but I was not committed so I let them go to someone else at $20: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1112434637
So, this morning (July 7th) at Hospice I saw a couple mugs with the same patterning, standard Waimea Pottery tall mug shape (different from the auction ones) and sure enough they both had Paul Laird marks. I chose the one with the landscape panel, as it seemed so typically Nelson, rather than the architectural one (which I think was the one on the right in the tm photo.).
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paulla10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/15/65/08/71/paulla10.jpg)
Waimea Pottery tall mug shape, marked only PL (impressed stamp)
The designs is the same front and back so I would expect the tm ones to be same.
The four auction mugs have only three patterns. I imagine there could be as many as six for a set, but maybe just three (two pairs?) as usually I expect lots of four and especially five mugs to be the remains of six sets.
I would have bought two but they were $2 rather than one and cheap as that is I just don't have room for multiples if I can avoid it.
It really is a beautifully made and finished mug. Last time I was at Brendan Adams gallery I was curious to see what Brendan was drinking from at the time and it too was Paul Laird's work, same Waimea shape again with I think a red copper glaze (like the differently shaped mug below right).
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paulla11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/15/65/08/71/paulla11.jpg)
my Waimea mugs, including the PL: I may very well have more
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So, this morning (July 7th) at Hospice I saw a couple mugs with the same patterning, standard Waimea Pottery tall mug shape (different from the auction ones) and sure enough they both had Paul Laird marks. I chose the one with the landscape panel, as it seemed so typically Nelson, rather than the architectural one (which I think was the one on the right in the tm photo.).
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paulla10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/15/65/08/71/paulla10.jpg)
Waimea Pottery tall mug shape, marked only PL (impressed stamp)
The designs is the same front and back so I would expect the tm ones to be same.
The four auction mugs have only three patterns. I imagine there could be as many as six for a set, but maybe just three (two pairs?) as usually I expect lots of four and especially five mugs to be the remains of six sets.
I would have bought two but they were $2 rather than one and cheap as that is I just don't have room for multiples if I can avoid it.
It really is a beautifully made and finished mug. Last time I was at Brendan Adams gallery I was curious to see what Brendan was drinking from at the time and it too was Paul Laird's work, same Waimea shape again with I think a red copper glaze (like the differently shaped mug below right).
![Waimea Pottery mugs Paulla11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/15/65/08/71/paulla11.jpg)
my Waimea mugs, including the PL: I may very well have more
.
Jeremy Ashford- Number of posts : 3193
Location : Whangarei, New Zealand
Registration date : 2010-09-11
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