Glass designer Geoffrey Baxter is one of the most renowned and celebrated designers of his era. His elegant and timeless designs are still popular today, and his work has been exhibited in galleries all over the world. Born in 1922, Baxter started working at the Whitefriars Glassworks in 1954, where […]
Demétre Chiparus (Demétre Haralamb Chiparus) was a Romanian sculptor who lived and worked in Paris, France during the Art Deco era. He is best known for his carved and patinated bronze sculptures of elegant Art Deco dancers and is considered to be one of the most important sculptors of that […]
Among the most collectables pieces Lowestoft Porcelain are their range of animals including cats and pugs. Most of the Lowestoft Porcelain Cats and Pugs date from 1770 to 1795. We take a look at a few examples showing some of the slight variations along with a realised auction price guide. […]
Lowestoft Porcelain is a type of soft-paste porcelain that was produced in the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. The porcelain was produced from 1757 to 1800/1802 and was known for its delicate painting and intricate decoration. The soft-paste porcelain used by the Lowestoft factory was a combination of local […]
One of Schuco’s very first toys was the Pick-Pick bird and between the 1920’s and the 1960’s some 20 million were made. The Schuco Pick Pick Bird is probably one of the most famous and iconic wind up clockwork toys not only of Schuco but any toy manufacturer. The Pick […]
Mork and Mindy was an American television programme that aired on ABC from 1978 to 1982. The show was created by Garry Marshall, who also created other successful sitcoms such as Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. The show starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork […]
Schuco was a German company that was founded in 1912 and is particularly noted for its production of tin toys. However, among other toys and items, Schuco began to produce Schuco Teddy Bear Perfume Bottles perfume bottles which fitted inside small jointed teddy bears, cats and monkeys. Schuco even produced […]
The series of Clarice Cliff Bizarre Grotesque Masks designed by Ron Birks were created in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Ron Birks was apprenticed to Clarice Cliff at the Newport Pottery and is noted for his abstract artwork on pottery and is probably most famous for the Grotesque Masks. […]
Schuco are well known for their toys, miniature figures and their miniature mohair teddy bear perfume bottles. They were made in the 1920s and 1930s and one of the rarer editions is one based on Felix the Cat. The Schuco Felix the Cat perfume bottle features a mohair Felix […]
In 1919, Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer created Felix the Cat, one of the most popular and enduring cartoon characters of all time. Felix was a black cat with white eyes who starred in his own series of short films from 1919 to 1930. The character became so popular that […]
