Titian Studio Pottery Blog

  One vase shape in multiple glazes B.102 Grey Stone with Wheat decoration The raised ear of wheat was incorporated into various mould designs. The wheat image was carefully wiped to reveal the white body underneath. Many of pieces that have the wheat pattern aren't numbered but instead have a Presley Ware sticker.  B.102 Pink with Gold handles This is my absolute favourite B.102 vase. I've only seen one other gold handled piece, owned by another collector, in pale green with gold handles. B.102 Mahogany Woodgrain B.102 Oak Woodgrain From 1957, Cameron Brown alongside Teddy Rennie, created the woodgrain glaze in oak and mahogany.  A light brown glaze was  airbrushed onto the pieces, then fine lines of darker brown painted over the top.  George Courts of Karangahape Road and John Courts in Queen Street bought £3,000 worth of Woodgrain earthenware and had their whole shop windows full of it. B.102 Pink and Grey   B.102 Black outer, Yellow inner B.102 Colbalt ...

 Let's start at the beginning. Front L to R: Brown brothers, Cameron (Snr), Neil and Jack with Vivien (Jack’s daughter)  and Cameron Jnr perched behind them. Neil's dog is a Scottish Terrier named Sandy.  Cam Jnr believes this photo was taken in the summer of 1950 before he started school. He thinks it was a Sunday because Jack, who was very religious, was dressed in his Sunday best. Coming home from the war in 1947 with wife Dorothy and baby Cam, Cameron Snr briefly worked at the Waitakere Brick Works with his father and two brothers before joining Crown Lynn. He managed to get jobs for brothers, Jack and Neil there. In about 1949 Cameron left Crown Lynn, briefly working at a timber yard. He, along with Dorothy and little Cam Jnr moved a couple of old army huts from Waitakere Brick Works to a piece of land on Bethells Road opposite the old school house. One hut was for making the moulds and casting them. The second was where they displayed the finished products for sale....