Fat Guy Follies

A brief diversion from the Music Fest to our visit with Mick and Jane. Part of their visit included at trip to our rustic cabin. While at the cabin, Jane was commenting on our lovely Art Deco table, or something to that effect.

I replied that we had ugly plates to match the table and pulled out this one.

Jane exclaimed," Oh my God, that is a Clarice Cliff". I responed with a,"Huh?", and turned the plate over and to my surprise saw this.

I still had no idea who Clarice was, but was impressed at Jane's knowledge of ugly dinnerware. That is until we came home and googled it. Apparently it could be worth as much as £200.00
When I got the cabin it had place settings for 60 people, due to the large New Years parties often hosted there. I figured most of the dishes were cast offs from my Great Aunt, and threw out most of the ugly stuff. I kept this one because it was a large serving plate, but most likely threw out a full set of 1937 Clarice Cliff Crocus Pattern Dishes.

I suppose I should have expected something like this from Jane, as she is a bit of a technophobe, using a paper and pencil to capture an image, when there is a perfectly good camera nearby.

We took a picture of her really nice drawing in case it got lost.


Cheers
Off to the Antique Road Show Bryan