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Pottery => Studio Pottery => England => Topic started by: MMorris on March 10, 2009, 04:29:08 PM

Title: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: MMorris on March 10, 2009, 04:29:08 PM: Just bought this (hope its leaper) off E bay & paid 42quid. Does that sound a reasonable price as Ive never bought one of these pieces before.

Mark
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: ChimpMad on March 10, 2009, 11:47:18 PM: Not my cup of tea I'll admit, but what else could you buy for ?42 that will last a lifetime and give you pleasure every time you look at it (answers on a postcard please :bad:)?
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: MMorris on March 10, 2009, 11:57:00 PM: Have to admit wifey wasn't too enthralled by it but its kinda grown on me & brightens up a room.
:rn:
M
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: ChimpMad on March 11, 2009, 12:05:00 AM: I'd probably see it in a different light if was a chimp!
A lot of art / studio pottery is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, no middle ground, and taste is such a personal thing. I once happened across one of my daughters' Christmas shopping lists, and writ large were the words 'Dad, bit of ugly pottery' :o I got a beautiful Bay Keramik vase ;D
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: MMorris on March 11, 2009, 12:41:42 AM: Yes, I know what you mean regarding taste

and on the subjects of chimps my 6 year old daughter has become absolutely besotted with monkeys. She can't stop talking about them and we presently have a house full of toy monkeys and we have to watch every monkey programme (although I did quite like the orangotang (is that how you spell it) orphanage one the other night). Ive promised her that this summer we will go down to monkey world (Dorset?).

Hopefully this will cure her :hlp: - just teasing

Best Wishes
Mark
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: ChimpMad on March 11, 2009, 12:19:02 PM: That's certainly an interest I'd nurture in her, though whether she'll be quite so besotted after getting up-close and personal to an adult chimp in a strop is another matter! Monkey World is brilliant, I'd move in tomorrow given half a chance ;D
And to drag us back to studio pottery, here's my chimp mug.
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: MMorris on March 11, 2009, 10:23:22 PM: Whoa - Thats a monkey mug!!

(just watched the BBC2 prog tonight - I now know its spelt Orangutang)

:blush:
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: ChimpMad on March 11, 2009, 11:34:02 PM: The agreed scientific name is Orang Utang, from an old Bornean name which I couldn't even pretend to know, but which means 'Old man from the forest'.
D'you know, I hate semantics. Until it involves apes :rn:
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: antiquerose123 on March 12, 2009, 02:11:41 AM: Nice mug there! ((:W:)) ((:O:)) ((:W:))
I bet you go Apes for that first cup of :coffee: :coffee: (..one for each EYE..)
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: ChimpMad on March 12, 2009, 01:12:05 PM: Sadly it's never been used. Being handthrown it's quite rough inside so difficult to clean properly, and I don't want to ruin it with coffee stains.
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: studiohunter on March 12, 2009, 04:50:58 PM: Quote from: MMorris on March 10, 2009, 04:29:08 PM
Just bought this (hope its leaper) off E bay & paid 42quid. Does that sound a reasonable price as Ive never bought one of these pieces before.

Mark

Hi Mark,
yes that was a good price,I have two just like him and payed about the same for both
Title: Re: Leaperboutwithjoy??
Post by: morse on June 21, 2009, 03:54:39 PM: In my experinece over past 2 years the small Eric Leaper Bisons have sold from ?35 to ?45 so if in perfect condition the market price.