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Well done Kerren. Thank goodness you won it and not an outsider.

Well done, do you reckon there is a guniess world record for the amount of CH memrobilia collected in one place!

Well if there is (a Guiness world record....) it's certainly not held by me! I have postcards, prints, medals, buttons, architects drawings for the potential Horsham site, Goss figures, books as well as special items like this bowl. But each time I am aware of bidding against other Old Blues and most times I lose out. Which is why, this time, I am so grateful that other potential bidders held back!

I've just had a look on e-bay at the bowl and it really is quite lovely. Well done. Being a bit of a china obsessive, I wouldn't mind one for my dresser!

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Public-School ... 0001439321

Public schools (CH included) and universities on cigarette cards!

cj wrote:Public schools (CH included) and universities on cigarette cards!

Even with an example!

(at least it looks likethe back of biig school...)

Well, I learned something interesting about these bowls last night! I was told that at Horsham, they were thicker, heavier, and had flat rims (presumably to mitigate against treatment by rough boys!). The Hertford ones were slightly lighter and had rounded rims. If this is correct, then its almost certain that the bowl I won came originally from Hertford. It hasn't come yet - but I bought my camera in to work so I could photograph it for the Forum when it did... Watch this space next week.

Thanks Kerren I look forward to that.

According to the eBay ad I think it said it was from about 1880?

I too get a little bit excited about pottery!

well won, Kerren - although I am pig-jealous : the crested bowls were always much nicer than the plain white, and as I still drink my café au lait CH-style, I would love to have one of these some day...

Also taught the 3-finger hold to my children, who show it off at the slightest provocation. I vaguely remember coffee-urns on Sundays, although the liquid served was closer to boiled mud - probably from tea-dregs. The neatest trick was serving tea from the urns without turning off the tap between bowls - remember that ?
B.

Ruthie-Baby wrote:the taste of the tea was rather 'special' - really strong from an urn made from catering size teabags. strangely i quite like urn-tea now...

Urn tea, I absolutely love that stuff nowadays, God alone knows why

Euterpe13 wrote:well won, Kerren - although I am pig-jealous : the crested bowls were always much nicer than the plain white, and as I still drink my café au lait CH-style, I would love to have one of these some day...

Also taught the 3-finger hold to my children, who show it off at the slightest provocation. I vaguely remember coffee-urns on Sundays, although the liquid served was closer to boiled mud - probably from tea-dregs. The neatest trick was serving tea from the urns without turning off the tap between bowls - remember that ?B.

I agree

Yes

Yes.. we must have been very dextrous to swap hands across, keeping the tap running. The bowl arrived today (I forgot to bring my camera to work so will have to try to picture it on the Forum later or tomorrow) - it seems bigger than I remember. We must have drunk an awful lot of tea.. but then perhaps they were only ever half filled, to leave room for your fingers at the top!

Hey we tried to poor multi drinks from the urns, if you got it wrong your shoes and socks knew about it in a hurry!

the trick was to have the bowls properly stacked either side of the urn, and for the tea-servers to move them forward as you served - I dont think we ever got any on the floor ! ( says she smugly...)

that's how I used to pour pints when I worked behind a bar, keep the tap open, start with empties on one side and put filled glasses on the other