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Friday, December 08, 2000

Fellow Belleekers !!  (lettre # 4.5)

** HEADLINE NEWS !! **

** BELLEEK acquires DONNEGAL POTTERY !!

George has done it again !!  I have heard it for the 
first time and have THREE confirmations that Belleek 
has, YES, bought out Donnegal !!  This is VERY exciting
as The Donnegal Pottery was established by former 
Belleek employees !!  With this in mind, we may very 
well see some of the Donnegal artistry influence flow 
over into future Belleek Ware ??

** JEAN COMERFORD WELECK **

Jean's MASSIVE collection of Belleek will go on auction
during the 2 days of February 10 and 11, 2001 !!  As 
everyone, who have had the privilege visiting her 
collection, and those of us whom have seen pictures of 
it as well as studied her published book, know that 
this will be the feature event of the year as expected !!  
Able Auctions at 1-480-949-1077 or www.ableauctions.com
will be managing her sale !!

** BELLEEK COLLECTORS' FAIR **

As ALWAYS, Lori and Ben Harlan host a spectacular 
Belleek Fair at the Silver Cloud Inn in Portland, 
Oregon !!  This years fair will feature, our own, 
Ms. Angela Moore, as well as the customary Belleek 
sales tables from WORLDWIDE RENOUNED dealers  !!  
This year's date is set at April 28, 2001 beginning 
at 8:30AM !!  Be sure to make your reservations EARLY 
at the Silver Cloud as space fills up VERY QUICKLY !! 
You can contact Lori and Ben at 425-828-4247 or on the 
Internet at harlan@gte.net !!

** CHICAGO SUMMER ANTIQUE SHOW **

This was a WONDERFUL year with all the customary 
dealers' displays !!  This particular year boasted 
TWO complete sales cases of Belleek Basket Ware as 
well as another dealer with one of the Belleek 
Spiderweb Woven Platters !! There were, as usual, 
MANY deals to be made !! 

** Collectors' NEWS and UPDATES !! **

I have updated Gina's index of the Belleek Collectors' 
Newsletters and (hopefully) ALL chapters have someone 
that can extract them off my Web Site ??  Remember, 
that using the 'formatted' version of this index allows
one to print ONLY those pages with a 'later' revision 
date, i.e., the 'This Page Last Updated' which is 
centered on the top of each page !!  NOTE : 12/13/14 - 
November - 2000 is the latest date !!

** THE 'LOST' THORN WALL PLACK !! **

ACTUALLY, NO !!  Simply put, this is a work from the 
Royal Worcester Potteries !!  I'm placing it here to 
describe some of the latent similarities that arose 
during the 'Victorian' era against competing potteries !!  
I would have to lend this tendency to not only the 
popular affliction for the 'unusual' but for the 
eminent displacement of artists as they hired out 
consistently between different potteries !!  In (this) 
first installment I have pictured an example of Royal 
Worcester's craftsperson work, VERY similar to 
Belleek's Thorn pattern, i.e., the replication of a 
Spider's Environment !!





For those of you interested in the REAL production of 
this spectacular plate, it ranges in the time period 
from 1943 to 1948, inclusive !!  It is of obsessive 
interest, at least to me, that Royal Worcester can be 
dated, to an EXACT YEAR, from, at least, the mid 1800's
till approximately 1962 with the obvious exception of 
the 'WAR' years, in this case !!


 


Belleekingly,

Del E. Domke, Belleek Consultant
16142 N.E. 15th. Street
Bellevue,  WA    98008-2711
U.S.A.

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