what do you collect

[Julz]

Wow! Quite a collection there Alan, I will show Bill the pictures when hes up and about later, one of the oldest collections he has are the Victorian moulding planes, designed to make intricate wooden beading and cornices, where each plane cuts a different profile in the timbers, there must be over 50 of them, they are all tucked away at the end of our garage in a toolbox or two, along with various antique saws, including his favourite Distan (sp?) and other types of old woodworking tools. They have all been well used in their day, but theres not the call for such fancy woodwork in modern buildings, although he did use them on some National Trust properties he worked on just before he retired

I will have to have a go at taking some piccies of my figurines to post up, but I must admit im fairly rubbish at the photography and resizing stuff, but I do know some of the names of them, my favorites are the 'Equestrian Lady' 'Top O'the Hill' and 'Julia' which my mum bought me for my 21st Birthday. I also collect Beswick Horses, Glass Paperweights (mostly Caithness), a few Leyburn teapots, and a couple of Capo-De-Monte sculptures, with 'The Tramp' and 'The Cheats' packed away safely out of the reach of our little grandchildrens fingers and flying toys!

Your figurine looks really nice, and quite an early example of their work, Did you ever get the chance to go around the pottery where they were made? We went out on a pensioners outing as helpers a few years ago, and they took us upto Stoke and the Potteries Museum, where it included a tour of the Wedgewood and Coleport factories, and the retail outlet, needless to say, I came home with much lighter pockets and heavier bags then when I set out, but it was well worth the trip, as sadly a lot of it has now closed down, and shipped overseas due to cheaper labour costs, and in some cases the company closing down completely when they went into receievership.

Julz

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello Clive,

When I use them I always lay them on their side to protect the blades that take a while to hone up on the finest japanese water stones.

Very sharp tools work better and you have less accidents with them, but you know all this in your line of work.

There is nothing better than finishing a woodworking job with the correct hand tools; or for that matter any job.

Regards

Alan

[Julz]

Hi Alan, I have just shown that piccy to Bill, and hes asked if you have any 'Norris' planes, apparently the rolls royce of the 'Plane World'

He also says that living in Sheffield, where a lot of these planes were originally made, you are at an advantage as far as collecting goes, as they were often available fairly cheaply to the factory workers who made them, and were sometimes sold on 'down the pub' to make a bit of beer money locally, so where in plentiful supply compaired to other parts of the UK where retail charges and transport costs made them less affordable to the locals

Bill says that in his collection he has the following,

Fore-plane and Jointer,

Jack plane,

Rebate plane, (sometimes called a Rabbit Plane)

Block plane,

Shoulder plane,

Bullnose plane,

Compass plane,

Norris plane, and of course, the full set of Beechwood moulding planes, and the 'Granny's tooth' Hornbeam planes, mostly used to get staircase joints cleanly routed out for making a perfect fit in high class fixtures such as the Victorian polished Oak type, which often didnt get covered up by carpets

Julz

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello Julz,

Please tell Bill that I have a Norris smoothing plane, a Stanley No 1 made in the USA with a sweethart blade two compas planes including one of the early types (he will know what I mean) In many respects I prefer the Record plane or the American Miller Falls planes. If I go out to a job I usually take my Record 4.5, Record 130 (double ended), Stanley 78 or Record 778, Stanley 90 and a bronze curved luthiers plane which is perfect for any finishing/triming job.

Going back to the china, we used to have a china shop in Sheffield called John Sinclair, they also had a branch in Bakewell in Derbyshire a great shop and even better cafe, china and cake, bliss!

They used to have get togethers to introduce new stock items, cheese and wine type evenings. On one of these we were given a talk by Michael Doulton who remained to sign their latest figurine.

Rather than take any more time up on the forum if you PM your details I will send yourself and Bill more snippets of course I will do likewise.

Regards

Alan

[Julz]

Ok Alan, will do, now you come to mention it, I believe some of the figurines that I inherited from my mother, are actually Royal Doulton

Bill's other hobby is Stone Masonry, and he has some fine specialist tools for doing that Too

Julz

[loribear]

hi jill, here is my collection, i collect teddy bears ,boyds, steiffs bearingtons, TYs & gunds,& a few from norfolk , hence the name lozibear lori

[jillR]

hi lozi

i have a canadian one with a wooden face that you would love.

ill post a picture later

jill

[loribear]

hi lozi

i have a canadian one with a wooden face that you would love.

ill post a picture later

jill

Ooooh can't wait i also collect old postcards, & i noticed that in flikr that someone was breaking up a starlight boat, & i have got an old foto of a starlight boat, i,ll have to see if i can find it. lori

[loribear]

hi jill, just found it, but it's star of light a 1950s boat, but it's still nice, lori

[jillR]

hi lori

just been to look where she was and shes wondered off

i will have to wait till shes back for the photo

shes sulked a bit since bilgefairy left home.

jill

[jillR]

star of light a 1950s boat

a herbert woods boat ?

jill

[loribear]

a herbert woods boat ?

jill

i get the feeling it is, as they name all their boats with light after them, lori

[jillR]

some thing like one of these ?

http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki/index.php ... style=QofL

[jillR]

there are folks on the flickr group who would know by that back window instantly

she looks very like prince of light style by the back half

[loribear]

there are folks on the flickr group who would know by that back window instantly

she looks very like prince of light style by the back half

it seems to have a distinct wooden canopy in the middle that looks like it swings back, it does have a number on the back, but it just says 54, lori

[jillR]

hi lori

it would have had a letter to probably a B

prince of light was B54

lovely boats

[loribear]

hi lori

it would have had a letter to probably a B

prince of light was B54

lovely boats

tried to have another look at pic, but it's abit blurred, it look s abit like an H but not quite sure , lori

[jillR]

hi lozi

i found an old picture of her along with some pictures of netsukes carved out of boxwood, that i used to collect

[loribear]

wow this is weird, when you click on a word or emoji it comes out at you lol , i really love your wooden animals, especially the teddy & chinese doll, lovely lori

[donnygeoff]

I am sure I have seen that bear on TV......

But something is missing...

[jillR]

bilgefairy bit her nose off

[donnygeoff]

not what I was thinking, but I enjoy your innocence...

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello donnygeoff,

I guess you are talking about Keith Lemmon or one of his earlier characters.

Regards

Alan

[donnygeoff]

Hello donnygeoff,

I guess you are talking about Keith Lemmon or one of his earlier characters.

Regards

Alan

thats his name, I couldn't think of it

[petersjoy]

Hi Lori,

Lorna collects Charlie Bears she's up to 60 odd now, two more arrived this morning