We’ve added a new search function, for searching on partial words, using – and *. A dash, or dashes, can be used to replace single letters in a word, eg, B-rry or B-r-y An asterix can be used to replace several letters in a word where you’re unsure how many there are, eg, Ba*y Although […]
Welcome to the site. For those who are already regular users, thank you for your forbearance as the marks have been added; it’s taken a bit longer than expected to get this far, but there are now over 6000 potters/pottery entries on the database and over 16,000 records. My husband has resized the photos and […]
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been going through an index of potters in Traditional English Country Crafts, published in 1975, which as a treasure trove of studio potters and potteries operating in the UK in the 60s and 70s (the Dark Ages for Pottery marks). It’s added some of the missing information on […]
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed via Buy Me A Coffee. We have spent the past week transferring the BISPM database over to a new server with https and gone live today, so you shouldn’t get anymore pesky messages in your browser that the website is unsafe. Hubby has rewritten the search code […]
After a lot of nagging from my husband, aka Chief Web Designer, I’ve agreed to add a Buy Me A Coffee button to the website. I’ve wanted him to change the website from http to https for a while now, so it’s ‘secure’, but it’s a subscription service and he wants to know how I’ll […]
For several years a mystery B or BP mark has been attributed to Brampton Pottery or Presingoll Pottery, amongst others. The pots are a distinctive white stoneware decorated with brightly coloured glazes, especially dots. By tracking the marks and decoration – some of which also have a W stamp – I now believe it’s by […]
Every so often I fall down the rabbit hole of an attribution which I thought was correct and now have serious doubts about. The latest one is Annette Christopher’s AC mark. For many years it has been assumed that 70s-style slab built vases and letter racks with just an AC stamp were by Annette Christophers, […]
Two jobs are currently top of my list (amongst all the other jobs that I got bored with and stopped part way through but I promise I’ll get back to the editing in a bit), and they are adding photos of pots rather than just marks. That may look like just the one job but […]
Because the database was set up primarily as a search site for marks I wasn’t too diligent in the way I entered the text such as names and addresses. But having used it on and off to search for the biographical details of various potters I’ve realised that has limited it’s use when searching on […]
I’ve discovered a lot of early entries with unticked shape boxes – circle, square, etc. Not sure if it was my fault when I was originally imputing the marks, or if there was a glitch in the programme when we were editing the boxes to add additional ones, but I have about a thousand to […]
Back in November 2022 I passed the 5000 potter/pottery milestone and I’m now coming up to 5530 entries. For each Potter and/or Pottery I try to have several examples of their marks so that’s almost 15,000 records in the database. I’m not sure what criteria they used for entry to the 3rd edition of the […]
