Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

[Girlefty]

Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

Anyone every hear of Gem pottery/ceramics? I just found a beautiful, gold tipped/veined ivory colored platter at a thrift store for $1.50. There is an embedded pottery mark that says "Gem" and "Irene Smith 1955" on the back. Sound familiar to any experts out there?

Merry Christmas and thanks in advance for any input, I'm new here.

Lefty...( :

 

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[EDDE]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

pictures help a lot

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z9...ts=dP0byvIV-e&sig=eTRA9Dj9QudNn7lKj9ZDZysvhSg

Page 117 in case the link sucks...

 

[diggummup]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

I'm no expert but i'd love to see a photo of this platter and the mark. It sounds like English staffordshire. I'm wondering if this is the same Irene Smith that is married to Norman. It doesn't sound like anything that Norman Smith would have put out,ie-jugs and such. He was still making pottery into the 1970's, maybe they got divorced years before and she went into a different field or style of pottery? Or maybe it was something she did on the side while married to Norman. We need a photo.

 

[Girlefty]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

Wow!...Thanks for all the responses. I don't have a digital cam, or I'd have put a picture of the platter up, sorry. Maybe I can borrow one, etc. This is becoming quite the "mystery".

The platter is quite "fancy" and looks nothing like the stuff Norman does. (thanks for the pg. 117...I read all of it).

I called a lady I know at a local antique store and she looked all through her pottery mark books and found nothing on "Gem" or Irene Smith. The mystery continues.....I'm going to bring it by to actually show her. I'll report back!

Thanks again,

Lefty

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

Yes! Keep us posted...

I did find some stuff on line about GEM ceramics or what have you... but it's all current and nonproductive information... foreign, Asian... etc...

I hope you figure it out!

 

[boogeyman]

Re: Vintage Pottery/Ceramic expert needed! "GEM" Platter found at thrift store

Try a book store such as Barnes & Noble. Look through the books on Pottery. That way you only need to buy the book if you find it, or buy it for future reference.

I don't know where you are, but The Brass Armadillo in Phoenix Az has a huge selection of books to use/buy not to mention you can get a cup of coffee and a danish while you read. Hope that helps!