Bought it! Thanks, Jim.
Tina
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Here are a tea pot and two cups, currently on ebay:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pottery-Marshall-TX-Yesteryears-
> Teapot-and-2-Mugs-Blue-Line-Hand-Turned-/262754286801
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 12/27/2016 6:13 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> Tom tells me it's actually Marshall, Texas, not Georgia!! I thought I
>> knew. You can find them on EBay sometimes but I haven't found coffee cups
>> in years of looking.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tina,
>>>
>>> I looked at the bottom of the pitcher, and it is rough and has no
>>> markings.
>>>
>>> I have a Western Stoneware #4 Butter Churn in the front hall, filled with
>>> several canes, including cut-off pool cue sticks. Here is the 1929
>>> catalog:
>>>
>>> http://www.westernstoneware.com/wsc_cat_1929.pdf
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 12/27/2016 4:31 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>>
>>> The coffee cups come from Marshall Pottery in Georgia. We have looked
>>>> and
>>>> looked for more like them but they are as scarce as hen's teeth!
>>>>
>>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=Marshall+Pottery+Georgia&rlz
>>>> =1C1CAFB_enUS636US636&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0a
>>>> hUKEwiS7aaztpXRAhXKzFQKHbXLARcQsAQIHA&biw=1920&bih=1070
>>>>
>>>> I think they are beautiful and your photos show that!
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Giving this discussion a little more thought, I brought the pitcher back
>>>>
>>>>> and sat it alongside my monitor. While the colors are a little truer
>>>>> in
>>>>> the image posted on Dec. 20th, the texture and general appearance are
>>>>> closer to the first image, posted on Dec. 18th. Running my hand over
>>>>> the
>>>>> surface vertically, I can feel slight ridges running parallel to the
>>>>> blue
>>>>> lines. And there are small specks beneath the glaze that one can feel
>>>>> very
>>>>> clearly. All told, the first is the more accurate image, and the
>>>>> second
>>>>> is"over-smoothed".
>>>>>
>>>>> Incidentally, in one of Tina's SL images, Tom is holding a coffee cup
>>>>> from
>>>>> the same pattern.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/25/2016 6:49 PM, Moose wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/22/2016 8:54 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Funny. I do indeed have 20/10 vision, but I feel it was a different
>>>>>> sort
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> of visual acuity at work here. I know what that kind of pottery looks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> feels like, and the first versions didn't 'feel' right. Looking
>>>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>>>> closely/critically, I found that the reason was noise that gave a
>>>>>>>>> slightly
>>>>>>>>> rough texture to the appearance of the glaze.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And I felt exactly the opposite. I know that that glaze has texture
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> it. That's the natural "flaw" to the process and materials.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's not my experience of that sort of pottery that I've known. I
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> recall a slightly 'rustic' creation, with occasional, small lacunae,
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> the glaze wasn't applied perfectly and occasional rough spots, where
>>>>>> something in the clay stuck up or something hard got into the glaze.
>>>>>> Between these anomalies, however, it was very smooth and shiny - to
>>>>>> touch,
>>>>>> as well as sight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in person, we have two eyes looking at the object and we have a
>>>>>>> built-in texture-averaging and noise-reduction mechanism in our
>>>>>>> visual
>>>>>>> system that is based on edge-detect and motion sensing. The rest of
>>>>>>> our vision is based on "content aware fill".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Therefore, the first version was much more accurate to the surface
>>>>>>> characteristics, but the second version was more representative of
>>>>>>> how
>>>>>>> we would have seen it in person.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Both are great, both are accurate, both are true, but the artistic
>>>>>>> intent is different.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nah, I think we are going to have to meet in Tullahoma, and see what
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> really like. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No earlier than May, though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Spring Moose
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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