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Title: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Bernard C on April 19, 2008, 11:00:20 AM

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.  8)

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Leni on April 19, 2008, 11:02:25 AM

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

Leni  xx

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Bernard C on April 19, 2008, 11:15:58 AM

Quote from: Leni

Cor!  Bernard, you can't post such a wonderful 'result' and then not show us the items! :D  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.  8)

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Bernard C on April 19, 2008, 11:27:53 AM

... 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.  8)

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Anne on April 19, 2008, 12:05:03 PM

Even more interesting with photos Bernard!  :P

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Leni on April 19, 2008, 12:13:11 PM

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

Leni  xx

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 12, 2009, 03:55:04 PM

Perhaps I can help with this one...

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 14, 2009, 06:18:51 PM

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?

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Bernard C on March 14, 2009, 06:45:14 PM

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.  8)

Title: Re: Sharing a lovely (Walsh) moment
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 14, 2009, 07:34:29 PM

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.