Non photography talk
Mar 7, 2020 11:36:31 #
Does anyone have any idea what this set is?
The white ceramic is made by Wedgewood.
There are four sizes.
The bottom holds hot water(?) To keep food hot(?).
A yard sale item.
My guess, serving food to officers at officers mess. The swabbies got fed"slop" in a serving line. I am thinking on old sailing ship era.
Anyone have an idea?
I don't, other than the stated one.
Bill
The white ceramic is made by Wedgewood.
There are four sizes.
The bottom holds hot water(?) To keep food hot(?).
A yard sale item.
My guess, serving food to officers at officers mess. The swabbies got fed"slop" in a serving line. I am thinking on old sailing ship era.
Anyone have an idea?
I don't, other than the stated one.
Bill
Mar 7, 2020 11:44:14 #
Mar 7, 2020 12:10:44 #
Mar 7, 2020 12:27:37 #
My guess : To carry food to an invalid. One who could afford a cook & servants. It is made with two handles & would be pretty much impossible to carry with one hand. On a moving sailing ship, it would be awkward at best to carry and keep your footing, at least with hot water in it.
That is a really cool find! Upon arrival, perhaps the food is served in the ceramic dishes? Out of general interest, what is the pot made of?
That is a really cool find! Upon arrival, perhaps the food is served in the ceramic dishes? Out of general interest, what is the pot made of?
Mar 7, 2020 15:05:21 #
I hope you get this figured out. I'm intrigued. You might ask Wedgewood. You may have a valuable artifact.
https://www.wedgwood.com/customer-service/contact-us
https://www.wedgwood.com/customer-service/contact-us
Mar 7, 2020 17:47:10 #
Muddyvalley wrote:
I hope you get this figured out. I'm intrigued. You might ask Wedgewood. You may have a valuable artifact.
https://www.wedgwood.com/customer-service/contact-us
https://www.wedgwood.com/customer-service/contact-us
This is one of the things I kept when I quit buying at yard sales and
auctions, then selling in co-op 'antique' store. 15 years at it, did very well. A 'hunch' has paid off many times: a perfume boot for fifty cents, maybe a dollar, a Stanley plane # A78, paid $5, got $500.
An unopened Sgt. Pepper Hearts Club Band was in a box of fifty cent LP's. I got $500.
Did same with FILM cameras. Very good market selling face to face.
Another story.
Your idea makes sense.
Today I am having back pain,about a 7, with 'spikes'.
So,agreeing with your idea. Not ruling it out, but not everyone affording private home care. So if not home where?
Aha, the hospital, then food service. Sterilizing and the need for sturdiness.
I am going to try the Wedgewood (Darwins inlaws, by the way) site.
A description:
Bottom pan, lid with holes, all metal parts are of a coated, or 'tinny' look. The parts are rivited together, a band encircling just below the raised rim.
The containers, a plain, white,simple ceramic looking casting.
The word Wedgwood poorly stamped on the bottom, took all of the containers' stamping's to see 'Wedgewood' clearly.
Thank you for your interest.
Bill
Mar 7, 2020 20:03:11 #
Compare the stamp with those in this list: https://collectingwedgwood.com/identification-and-dating
Here are three of the crudest & oldest. Lots more at the URL.
Here are three of the crudest & oldest. Lots more at the URL.
Mar 7, 2020 23:13:02 #
Muddyvalley wrote:
Compare the stamp with those in this list: https://collectingwedgwood.com/identification-and-dating
Here are three of the crudest & oldest. Lots more at the URL.
Here are three of the crudest & oldest. Lots more at the URL.
The 16'th one down, the lower case of the two looks like it. From 1769 to present and IMPRESSED fit. This is the only 'impressed'.
These I have are poorly struck, either the first letter is deepest, running up to the surface on right, or the opposite, last deepest and running out to the left.
Whatever this set is it is very utilitarian. I can find no utilitarian Wedgewood pieces on line, or in the many books and magazines I have looked thru. And nothing that even looks close.
I have shown it to some of the many dealers and auctioneers I knew. None had more than a 'what it might be used for' idea.
This leads me to believe this line has long been dropped and forgotten.
All other logos are applied or painted before glazing.
Today, all their products are embellished, color stamp fired in the glaze, hand painted (costly at all times), or a bas relief of clay applied and fired in the glaze.
I'll keep digging. Thanks.
Bill
Mar 8, 2020 15:21:37 #
newtoyou wrote:
Does anyone have any idea what this set is?
The white ceramic is made by Wedgewood.
There are four sizes.
The bottom holds hot water(?) To keep food hot(?).
A yard sale item.
My guess, serving food to officers at officers mess. The swabbies got fed"slop" in a serving line. I am thinking on old sailing ship era.
Anyone have an idea?
I don't, other than the stated one.
Bill
The white ceramic is made by Wedgewood.
There are four sizes.
The bottom holds hot water(?) To keep food hot(?).
A yard sale item.
My guess, serving food to officers at officers mess. The swabbies got fed"slop" in a serving line. I am thinking on old sailing ship era.
Anyone have an idea?
I don't, other than the stated one.
Bill
A portable Baine Marie most likely only for one or two people.Hot water is put into the main body of the unit , then the smaller vessels are inserted into their respective ports to seal the deal. Your guess is probably correct. They usually are much larger and plated in silver for elaborate dining events.
Mar 8, 2020 15:45:50 #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
A portable Baine Marie most likely only for one or two people.Hot water is put into the main body of the unit , then the smaller vessels are inserted into their respective ports to seal the deal. Your guess is probably correct. They usually are much larger and plated in silver for elaborate dining events.
Thank you. No one has ever even had a good guess.
My idea was just a conjecture, what it may be used for.
One step closer.
Bill
Mar 10, 2020 17:20:48 #
newtoyou wrote:
Thank you. No one has ever even had a good guess.
My idea was just a conjecture, what it may be used for.
One step closer.
Bill
My idea was just a conjecture, what it may be used for.
One step closer.
Bill
Still looking, just not as much right now.
Nothing new and nothing close to this one.
Bill
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