Topic: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment

[Bernard C]

I've had three lovely Walsh stems on my shelf for a while, unidentified.   Traditional cut patterns are difficult and involve time consuming work with a magnifying glass, working your way through the pattern books at the back of Reynolds.   And it's easy to miss one.

So, I was looking up something else, and there it was, pattern A5527, two patterns on from Ayr.   Then I noticed the pattern name Hatfield.   Then, on closer examination, I found the Clyne Farquharson design book number, 150.

Isn't it pleasing when you seem to have got it right (for a change).

Bernard C. 

[Leni]

Cor!  Bernard, you can't post such a wonderful 'result' and then not show us the items!   Please? 

Leni  xx

[Bernard C]

Cor!  Bernard, you can't post such a wonderful 'result' and then not show us the items!   Please? 

You have to be joking.   I'm up to my neck in bubblewrap and boxes, leaving for Gaydon in less than three hours!

Bernard C. 

[Bernard C]

... and it gets better.   Two different cutters.   Fabulous.   I just love mixed sets, they are so much more interesting and informative than having them all the same.

Bernard C. 

[Anne]

Even more interesting with photos Bernard! 

[Leni]

Will you be taking them to Gaydon, Bernard?  See you there, anyway.

Leni  xx

[Pinkspoons]

Perhaps I can help with this one...

[Pinkspoons]

Bernard, do you know if any kind of rough date of design can be divined from the pattern number or from Farquharson's design book number?

I would assume mid- to late-1920s, judging by its old-fashioned pattern. Would that be far off?

[Bernard C]

Nic — That jug is fabulous.   Please never consider selling it without letting me know first.

I've only found one date so far, and, just in case I have it wrong, I won't tell you what I think it is.   It's on pattern A4103, fig. 256.

All my other dates are informed guesswork, and are on a whole sheaf of bits of scribbled on paper.

Bernard C. 

[Pinkspoons]

Gosh you've got better eyesight than I have - I'd never have spotted it.

I'll contact you privately, re: the jug, as I was actually just preparing it for sale - hence the querying of specifics.