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 […]
Warren Mackenzie was a well known US studio potter and one of the exponents of the Mingei movement of Anglo-Japanese studio pottery. During 1950s-60s he spend several years traversing between his studio in Stillwater, Minnesota, USA, and Devon and Cornwall in England. And in later years he spent several sabbaticals at the Leach Pottery in […]
I love connecting long forgotten potters to potteries. The latest is Len Street and Rosecraddoc Pottery (sometimes called Rosecraddor because of the old fashioned font used on the boxes, which makes the c look like an r). The Pottery is listed on The Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics, and was based in or near Liskeard, […]
One of the first names I checked in the Yates-Owen/Fournier BSPM Archive was Trentham de Leliva’s written mark. The monogram is made up of T d and L in his name (the d looks like a P, I’ve added a photo of it to Tentham de Leliva’s entry on the BISPM database). I was checking […]
So my Christmas present this year was the British Studio Pottery Marks archive, collected and collated by Eric Yates-Owen and Robert Fournier. I had a tip off it was coming up for auction in December at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter so I popped a large absentee bid on it and won it! Made […]
Some regular uses of BISPM may have noticed a few changes in the layout over the last week or so. We are in the process of making the website industry compliant. It’s been a bit of a fiddle, and things like photo thumbnail size got completely screwed up in the process, but hopefully things are […]
As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, the Search Text box is not like Googling; you can’t simply throw in a question and expect it to produce any results. Any Text has to be written in the box as it is written in the original entry. So if you’re typing in a label then add […]
My apologies to anyone unable to access the BISPM website via a BT landline and/or EE WiFi. BT, in it’s wisdom, has decided to block my website because it’s hosted by Fasthosts, which has been flagged as a bad host by a single security website who want to extort £23 a month from us to […]
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 […]
