A pair of Ashtead potters fantail pigeon bookends, each in a grey glaze, printed marks 15½cm (6in) The Ashtead Pottery lasted for only 12 years from 1923 to 1935. It was set up in Ashtead Surrey with the aim of providing employment for disabled ex-servicemen. At its height, it employed 40 men and produced an array of wares from figures to everyday crockery in bold bright Art Deco designs. They also produced commemoratives designed by some of the leading artists of the time including Phoebe Stabler who also designed for Poole and Royal Doulton. The Ashtead Potters exhibited at the Wembley "British Empire Exhibitions" of 1924 and 1925 having working stands where the potters showed off their skills and wares. The pottery closed in 1935 during the Great Depression.
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Fleece Press. The Art of Binding Books, by Angela James, Fleece Press, 1991, illustrations by Anthony Christmas, original decorative cloth, oblong 24mo, limited edition, one of 290 copies, together with The Fleece Press Guide to the Art of Wood-Engraving, Fleece Press, 1986, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, Monica Poole, Peter Forster and others, original patterned boards, slipcase, 24mo, limited edition, one of 250 copies, plus The Country Life, by Kathleen Lindsley, Fleece Press, 1997, wood-engravings, original patterned cloth, 24mo, limited edition, one of 300 copies, with seven others, mostly limited edition illustrated miniatures: A Guide to the Hand Press, by Ward Ritchie, 1989, Stanley Morison Man of Letters, [1988], In Praise of John Baskerville. A Tribute by F.E. Pardoe, 1994, Making Books to Music, by Andrew Wilde, Incline Press, 2002, The Lure of the Label, by Brian North Lee, Incline Press, 2003, Think of it as a Poster, by Brian Webb, 2010 and Joan Hassall's Our Village, 2011 (10)
A FINE 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY JOHN POOLE, LONDON, CIRCA 1855, the 4½in. silvered dial signed John Poole, 57 Fenchurch Street, London, 2702, maker to the Admiralty, gold hands with blued-steel subsidiaries, Earnshaw Escapement with Poole's auxiliary compensation set within a counterweighted and gimbal-mounted bowl within three-tier wooden box with tipsy key, with numbered maker's plate and inset handles, approximately -- 9in. (23cm.) square
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