Does anyone else have a passion for Teapots - or anything else 😄

Not teapots in my case but i love a nice decorative tin... i have a cupboard in my kitchen where they live and on a few occasions my husband has opened the cupboard door and they all clattered out 😅😂😅😅

ohhhh and walking sticks, i have 9 so far. Each 1 to match my attire.

My aunt has a tea pot that is designed allllĺ twisted and wonky, I love it. Very unusual. 😃

I was probably born with a collector mentality. As a child I collected little china crinoline lady statues which I bought with my pocket money.

Then in the 1960s I began to learn about Victorian jewellery and had a massive collection of earrings. That led me into going to antique fairs, shops and car boots - wherever I could find old stuff. My grandmother left me the contents of her house in 1979 and that got me into dealing. I worked as a librarian back in those days so I read every book on antique jewellery, accessories and furniture I could get hold of. I still have a huge collection of reference books.

I dont buy much for myself now, mostly for resale. All dealers began as collectors and most of us collect something.

Coloured glass here, but haven't actually bought any since before lockdown. 😇
Apologies for the poor photo.

I have cupboards full of Chelsea Pyrex. I could probably serve a five course meal for 25 people. We didn’t know there were so many different styles of bowl, casserole and plate. If I see it, I have to buy it. The only time the cups and saucers have been used is for two wakes, after my parents’ funerals. We saw a pile of it, including a butter dish (rare) in a charity shop and my DH escorted me from the shop. I went back and explained that I couldn’t pay £30 because he didn’t want it and they let me have it for £25. In fact, they were delighted to get rid of it. My friends buy it for me as well, when they see it. We laugh when we remember it all started with two casserole dishes received as a wedding present and a closing down in the local Timothy Whites.

My name is CLG and I'm a jugaholic..

I collected tea pots in the 80’s, had a lovely old dresser where they were displayed. We moved from a huge old terraced house into our current ordinary 1950’s house, the dresser had to go and I decided to minimise ceramics/pottery etc as well. I still have to stop myself buying an ‘interesting’ tea oot

I’m a jug lover but don’t have room for many. Pyrex shouldn’t be put in the recycling by the way, wrong sort of glass. Ditto drinking glasses it says when I googled after smashing a lovely cut glass sherry glass I’d had for ever. Jam jars are fine. It’s a minefield.

Don’t be too eager to throw out your Pyrex. Even the more common 60/70s ones are being advertised on ebay.

I love jugs, no idea why. I don't actually collect them but never throw one away.

I used to collect Mottoware but most of it is in a box in the roof.

I got this little one in a small market in China many years ago.

Urms we have racking in the garage, behind sliding doors.

If I lived in a mansion I’d have it all out in glass cabinets in my extremely spacious kitchen and the maids would hand wash it all for me after using it each day when I partook of high tea in my parlour!
However………

Urmstongran

Not really. But thought you might like to see this lovely one I’ve had for many years. I donated it to a charity shop a few weeks ago ...

I do like that one Urmstongran

I have a lot of jugs but am probably not a collector.
Some are in a box to take to the charity shop.

Biscuitmuncher

Pyrex from the '70s, I love it. I find it in charity shops, I think my kids think I'm mad

I've just put some in the recycling!
Mind you, it was well-used and had spent many times in the dishwasher so most of the pattern had disappeared.

Urmstongran that's exactly what I look for!

Here's the latest teapot which caught my attention in the charity shop. It's probably not amazing to anyone but me, but something about it made me want to take it home😀🤗. And I don't even drink tea! 🤣

Here you go Biscuitmuncher. This was my mum’s. I used it in domestic science to make cheesy potatoes in 1967 at secondary school - with a sprig of parsley as garnish I recall courtesy of the teacher. We weren’t that posh at home! Again, I took a photo for the memory and then took it into the charity shop. Decluttering is liberating once you start!

The “enjoy” one is from the vintage Kelloggs collection.

I also have a huge collection of Toni Raymond pottery from the late 60s /early 70s. I used to work in a gift shop at weekends and it was so popular then. I bought a few small pieces then but still buy it because it brings back memories and it’s fun.

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Whoops! Just did a quick kitchen search and it seems I do collect tea pots. 🤣

Pyrex from the '70s, I love it. I find it in charity shops, I think my kids think I'm mad

It’s why I took a photo of it Fairycakes before I donated it. I do that with objects before I get rid these days if it’s something I find harder to part with. That way I have my memory in place without the need for keeping whatever it is.

Blimey Oops! More of an addiction I’d say! 🤣
You must live in a mansion. I’d be tripping over even one crate!

Oopsadaisy1
Goodness! That certainly counts as a passion. It puts my four teapots to shame 😄

BlueBelle
How wonderful. It must have been a special teapot 🤩

Urmstongran
That's a beautiful teapot. It can't have been easy to part with after all that time.

Well I have 35 crates of Vintage Crockery which includes 15 Teapots.

Does that count as a passion?

When I was very young and came home from living in HK I bought my Nan a teapot it was a plain bisque colour with a row of black Chinese writing ( no idea what it said) it was 8 sided anyway after nan died, it went into my cupboard along with some other kitchen bits, a few years ago I thought, why am I keeping this I don’t even drink tea
I put it on eBay and forgot about it, there was a flurry of hits from China and it went for well over £100