No worries Richard, we all find your "finds" absolutely beautiful and fascinating 👍😁. Thank you so much for including the historical pictures along with the historical information. It really makes it easier to put "find" to fact. A intact, whole clay pipe...(sigh)...😊dream find indeed! 🤞 Hoping for alittle lockdown lift for you and your fellow mudlarkers soon. 😉🤗🤭😘
Ah, I had no idea where 'box office' came from, thanks for that bit of history! And a huge thanks for all your Top 10 vids, they've really been a lovely way to stay connected during quarantine. :-)
Perhaps ... the ten things your spouse/partner/friend(s) find(s) coolest? Your funniest most favourite finds of all time (or to date, lol)? Your ten enduring total mysteries? The ten things most frequently asked about from your book? We do so enjoy seeing you make these presentations.
@@richardhemery6916 Please show Mrs Richard that you have almost 4 thousand friends that wait patiently for your vlogs to pop up on their computer/phone/electronic devises.... You are becoming a celebrity and a household name around the world. You might ask us - your subscribers to tell you where( ie countries/states ) we are all located...In case you need help one day in your travels.... We are everywhere ... Thank you .
That stove in the photo at the end was amazing. Quite beautiful. I've never seen one like that. It looks a little like a Scandinavian stove, only the fire would be inside of it like we use now. Good you have an Instagram account. I'm "nomadnonna" there, and will follow you. Looking forward to seeing items and photos you post. Thanks for this video Richard. Very enjoyable and interesting.
Thank you for that TOP10 Pottery/History Lesson !!!! Your videos are always so interesting and very pleasing to watch. Hopefully you can get back to the Thames foreshore soon !! Thank you and be safe !! A fan from across the pond in New Jersey 🇺🇸
Thank You again for the great collection of historical pottery. Researching it all has got to be a real bear. I am still amazed by your knowledge of pottery. If I was in the London area, I'd be on the foreshore at every opportunity. But I am in the U.S., where such historical material is not found in the Pacific Northwest.
Thanks! You have a really great way to bring history to us. Your channel holds my teenager kids interest ( and that is saying alot these days! ) We appreciate how warm your approach to history !
Thank you . You showed an example of slip ware with a partial motto, but the example of the complete plate didn't have a motto just the date I was looking forward to a plate with the motto.
Thank you Richard. How about a further Top 10 video based on items you would like to find on the Thames foreshore. This can be based on items previously found by other mudlarkers and narrated with your usual in-depth knowledge.
Wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy this or learn anything........ How wrong was I! Thank you for the lesson most enjoyable. I mudlarked once below the Tower of London fifteen years ago and I have a little jar of finds to remind me of home including some old clay pipe bowls and stems, a piece of blue and white pottery and what I have since found out from you and others is a probably a piece of Belamine/Bartman jug/flagon with lots of stars and patterns on it. I kept it because I liked the pattern. I have to say my dream find would be a Belamine/Bartman Tudour Flagon. I can dream! With thanks. Enjoy.
Terrific, each of your vlogs. A creative and intersting gift to all of us. We will all miss your Top 10's. I will check you out on Instagram and I sincerely hope you will be able to enjoy a bit more freedom and Spring wonders. So far apart but all in the same boat. Thank you .
I really enjoyed this Richard, thank you. Your videos are so informative and very calming to watch. Hope you will be able to go out searching soon when it’s safe. I’m a newbie mudlark and can’t wait to get back to the foreshore!
Great finds! Loved these! Thanks for sharing! Great news about the Instagram account! I’m from Randolph County NC. Check out antique face jugs from Randolph County Seagrove North Carolina. Several generations of potters which is “old” for the US.
Very nice! I have thoroughly enjoyed your Top 10 series, and I have to say that I always come away having learned a few things. Having been a fan of old Regency novels many years ago (the ones by Georgette Heyer, that were so painstakingly accurate), I remember her characters "taking a dish of Bohea" at Vauxhall-- now I know what they might have drank their tea from! I also particularly loved your #1, the stovebrick; I lived in Germany for several years, and I recall seeing what was jokingly called the Hot Seat at one of the castles I went to (Heidelberg, maybe?); the lord of the castle had suffered from gout and had had his stove built with a carefully-calibrated chair in one side, far enough from the coals so that it'd just get very warm rather than hot. He must've been a rather large man; it was a big seat, even allowing space for a thick cushion, but it looked very comfortable. Modern, electric versions of ceramic stoves are still sold in Germany, and you can even buy woodburning versions; a friend of mine had a very pretty electric one of white-glazed fairly ornate ceramic bricks, and I spent many hours curled up as close to it as I could get without burning myself.
Thank you for your comments! I like the idea of the stove seat. I have seen an 18th century double tea caddy, one side marked 'green' the other 'bohea'
So nice to see a person with interest in pottery shards and objects found poking along the Thames! The gutsy redware certainly is most beautiful. I am a retired potter and I wish I had seen a photo of that German pig casserole, I surely would have enjoyed playing with those sidewise throwing marks!
Excellent as always Richard ..I have a small early Delft bowl .wall decoration .if you can date it for me I'd be very happy ..thanks for all your knowledge ..can I send you pictures ? Please to see what you think of it .👍👍👍🍀
It's unbelievable how glazes and stuff are still there after hundreds of years. It's amazing to an American like me that stuff this old is still around
Wonderful video, Richard!! I've gained new respect for the Metropolitan Slipware sherd we found together at Trig Lane last Oct!! Your Metro S-ware was your number 4 find!! Thank you so much for doing the research to show us pictures of the complete objects--it really helps in understanding what it is you're finding. On a personal note; we all need haircuts! Being a U.S. Marine, I haven't had hair touch my ears since 1977!!! I'm going nuts!! Haha. Please know that you don't have to do your "top ten." ANYthing you have in your collection presents a great reflection of what you've found over the years and we love to see it. But we're all praying that you (we) can get back to the Foreshore soon. Stay well!
Brilliant, as always. Love the stove tile.....and the way you show a complete version of the object. It really helps people to see the c,lues to identify pieces. i don't mudlark but i metal detect in Normandy. Lots of old pottery I try (with varying success) to identify. Your videos have definitely helped me have more idea of what these items were used for and approximate age. Thank you. It would be great if people could send you their pictures for you to identify.
Hey Richard! Thanks for another great video! it's interesting that you mention the difference between Wera and Wesa wares being the lines on the base. I'm a potter , and these types of base details are actually a much discussed topic among potters. It's hard to tell how straight they are, but I think the lines are not caused by being set on something with ridges on it and those causing an impression, but rather that the ridges are made by the string or wire used to detach the pot from the wheel when throwing. Do you think this might be the case? Is there much record of how they're made? I've discovered the following in my ceramic explorations: A twisted string will form round bottomed ridges, whereas a braided string or wire will give a smoother finish. Some folks these days even use a stretched out pen spring for neat design. Often potters will spin the wheel while wiring a pot off causing a swirl. I've learned tons watching your videos. Best from Denver, CO
Hello Liam, thanks for your comments. The Weser pottery base lines are completely straight and parrallel, which makes me think it was not the cheesewire marks, unless they managed it very carefully. I see these on the base of the Bartmann stoneware jugs, and they are always circular, meeting at one point.
@@richardhemery6916 that's very interesting! I've never seen such a bottom before... I may have to have a go at it and see if I can duplicate it. All good things, Liam
Richard.....Again a wonderful presentation.......so informative on the pottery that one always took for granted. The no 1 find - the stove brick was brilliant. In fact, years ago I was in the Televised adaptation of Shaw's Arms and the MAN in Sth Africa in 1976. In the studio set was a similar stove which intrigued me no end. I always wondered if it was but never questioned it's suitability as a set piece but as the play was set somewhere in Europe I just imagined it was correct............and now I am thankful you have appeased my curiosity after so long. BTW there was a question I posed to you re that massive chunk of flint that you picked up when you and Nicola went mudlarking together. sorry I didn't not the date. The question was how do you suppose the 'chunk' found it's way to London. Was it carried, do you think by an extraordinary flood from the upper reaches of the Thames . Still curious. But thank you for today. Kirk in Australia . PS the Casserol was a delightful eye opener. Wonderfully basic but thought through. German attention to technicality as usual.
Thank you Kirk, I'm glad you liked it. Flint occurs naturally in London and South East England, so there is always plenty on the foreshore or in the cliffs by the sea.
He has a lovely voice and it soft..At our house (on the Treasure Coast of Florida) ear phones have become a necessity during our "isolation".... They make for much better harmonious relations ....24/7 together makes for very long days and nights....Richards chanel had provided a wonderful destination for us all during this world event. He now has almost 4K friends . ... All his hard work and thoughtfulness the # should be many more.
I love your channel. I love seeing a picture of a complete item It adds perspective, and puts life into it. Thanks you.
Very enjoyable and educational video Richard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and collection with us. I hope you get to go searching again soon.
No worries Richard, we all find your "finds" absolutely beautiful and fascinating 👍😁. Thank you so much for including the historical pictures along with the historical information. It really makes it easier to put "find" to fact.
A intact, whole clay pipe...(sigh)...😊dream find indeed! 🤞 Hoping for alittle lockdown lift for you and your fellow mudlarkers soon. 😉🤗🤭😘
Thank you so much, Juliet.
No 1 is very interesting but my favourites were no 10 and no 7. Thanks for sharing, Professor.
Ah, I had no idea where 'box office' came from, thanks for that bit of history! And a huge thanks for all your Top 10 vids, they've really been a lovely way to stay connected during quarantine. :-)
Perhaps ... the ten things your spouse/partner/friend(s) find(s) coolest? Your funniest most favourite finds of all time (or to date, lol)? Your ten enduring total mysteries? The ten things most frequently asked about from your book? We do so enjoy seeing you make these presentations.
Food for thought...my wife finds it all very uninteresting!
@@richardhemery6916 My wife is the same as is John's, Rick's and Pete's.
@@richardhemery6916 Please show Mrs Richard that you have almost 4 thousand friends that wait patiently for your vlogs to pop up on their computer/phone/electronic devises.... You are becoming a celebrity and a household name around the world. You might ask us - your subscribers to tell you where( ie countries/states ) we are all located...In case you need help one day in your travels.... We are everywhere ... Thank you .
Agree with Rob, those other top ten ideas are great. Also, maybe your most complete finds, or show pictures of things you would like to find!
Yes, I have a long wish list of things I would like to find...
That stove in the photo at the end was amazing. Quite beautiful. I've never seen one like that. It looks a little like a Scandinavian stove, only the fire would be inside of it like we use now. Good you have an Instagram account. I'm "nomadnonna" there, and will follow you. Looking forward to seeing items and photos you post. Thanks for this video Richard. Very enjoyable and interesting.
Also love your book!
What a wonderful collection. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing your finds and I live learning what they are. I always learn new things from you.
First time viewer here. Interesting. Greetings from Pure Michigan, USA. Tim.
Thanks Judy!
Excellent history lesson, Richard. Thank you.
Thank you for that TOP10 Pottery/History Lesson !!!! Your videos are always so interesting and very pleasing to watch. Hopefully you can get back to the Thames foreshore soon !! Thank you and be safe !! A fan from across the pond in New Jersey 🇺🇸
Thank You again for the great collection of historical pottery. Researching it all has got to be a real bear. I am still amazed by your knowledge of pottery. If I was in the London area, I'd be on the foreshore at every opportunity. But I am in the U.S., where such historical material is not found in the Pacific Northwest.
Thank you!
And not much in the Northeast either, I live in a coastal area settled in 1625 but still never find anything with eyes only.
Treasures a plenty ! Thanks Richard.
Thanks! You have a really great way to bring history to us. Your channel holds my teenager kids interest ( and that is saying alot these days! ) We appreciate how warm your approach to history !
Thank you . You showed an example of slip ware with a partial motto, but the example of the complete plate didn't have a motto just the date I was looking forward to a plate with the motto.
Yes, google didn't oblige. Most of the surviving motto pieces are jugs and other hollow wares.
Thanks Richard. Hope you get out soon.
Some really nice finds, Richard. Stay safe!
Love your videos, your finds are very cool and your explanations are fantastic, Thank You☮️🇨🇦
Thank you Richard. How about a further Top 10 video based on items you would like to find on the Thames foreshore. This can be based on items previously found by other mudlarkers and narrated with your usual in-depth knowledge.
These videos are so informative! Thank you!
Wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy this or learn anything........ How wrong was I! Thank you for the lesson most enjoyable. I mudlarked once below the Tower of London fifteen years ago and I have a little jar of finds to remind me of home including some old clay pipe bowls and stems, a piece of blue and white pottery and what I have since found out from you and others is a probably a piece of Belamine/Bartman jug/flagon with lots of stars and patterns on it. I kept it because I liked the pattern. I have to say my dream find would be a Belamine/Bartman Tudour Flagon. I can dream! With thanks. Enjoy.
Thank you!
The depth and breadth of your knowledge is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing your finds.
Terrific, each of your vlogs. A creative and intersting gift to all of us. We will all miss your Top 10's. I will check you out on Instagram and I sincerely hope you will be able to enjoy a bit more freedom and Spring wonders. So far apart but all in the same boat. Thank you .
Really good top ten!
Welcome to Instagram ! I will follow you alongside Nicola White with great appreciation. Hello from Australia.
I really enjoyed this Richard, thank you. Your videos are so informative and very calming to watch. Hope you will be able to go out searching soon when it’s safe. I’m a newbie mudlark and can’t wait to get back to the foreshore!
Yes, it looks like access is possible again, if you drive or walk.
Richard Hemery Thanks Richard! 😀 Great news.
Great finds! Loved these! Thanks for sharing! Great news about the Instagram account! I’m from Randolph County NC. Check out antique face jugs from Randolph County Seagrove North Carolina. Several generations of potters which is “old” for the US.
“Amend Thy Life,and Sin no More”.
Wow,what a fascinating window into a past age,via an otherwise random looking sherd,to my humble eyes!
Very nice! I have thoroughly enjoyed your Top 10 series, and I have to say that I always come away having learned a few things. Having been a fan of old Regency novels many years ago (the ones by Georgette Heyer, that were so painstakingly accurate), I remember her characters "taking a dish of Bohea" at Vauxhall-- now I know what they might have drank their tea from! I also particularly loved your #1, the stovebrick; I lived in Germany for several years, and I recall seeing what was jokingly called the Hot Seat at one of the castles I went to (Heidelberg, maybe?); the lord of the castle had suffered from gout and had had his stove built with a carefully-calibrated chair in one side, far enough from the coals so that it'd just get very warm rather than hot. He must've been a rather large man; it was a big seat, even allowing space for a thick cushion, but it looked very comfortable. Modern, electric versions of ceramic stoves are still sold in Germany, and you can even buy woodburning versions; a friend of mine had a very pretty electric one of white-glazed fairly ornate ceramic bricks, and I spent many hours curled up as close to it as I could get without burning myself.
Thank you for your comments! I like the idea of the stove seat. I have seen an 18th century double tea caddy, one side marked 'green' the other 'bohea'
So nice to see a person with interest in pottery shards and objects found poking along the Thames! The gutsy redware certainly is most beautiful. I am a retired potter and I wish I had seen a photo of that German pig casserole, I surely would have enjoyed playing with those sidewise throwing marks!
Oh my gosh! Thank you “ Box Office” and and “Chaffing Dish”. I had absolutely NO IDEA!” Thank you I’m following you. Amazing
Thank you Corinne.
Excellent as always Richard ..I have a small early Delft bowl .wall decoration .if you can date it for me I'd be very happy ..thanks for all your knowledge ..can I send you pictures ? Please to see what you think of it .👍👍👍🍀
Send me photos at richardhemery@tiscali.co.uk
Thanks Richard, always interesting and informative and delivered with that gentle humour and humble attitude. I hope you can get out and about soon.
Thank you!
Thank you. So much you are a mountain of knowledge❤️
It's unbelievable how glazes and stuff are still there after hundreds of years. It's amazing to an American like me that stuff this old is still around
Last top ten :( but hopefully many other videos to come:) love the videos, love learning what you know and seeing what you find. Thank you.
Wonderful video, Richard!! I've gained new respect for the Metropolitan Slipware sherd we found together at Trig Lane last Oct!! Your Metro S-ware was your number 4 find!! Thank you so much for doing the research to show us pictures of the complete objects--it really helps in understanding what it is you're finding. On a personal note; we all need haircuts! Being a U.S. Marine, I haven't had hair touch my ears since 1977!!! I'm going nuts!! Haha. Please know that you don't have to do your "top ten." ANYthing you have in your collection presents a great reflection of what you've found over the years and we love to see it. But we're all praying that you (we) can get back to the Foreshore soon. Stay well!
I've added your Instagram. Thanks for another top ten 👍.
Brilliant, as always. Love the stove tile.....and the way you show a complete version of the object. It really helps people to see the c,lues to identify pieces. i don't mudlark but i metal detect in Normandy. Lots of old pottery I try (with varying success) to identify. Your videos have definitely helped me have more idea of what these items were used for and approximate age. Thank you.
It would be great if people could send you their pictures for you to identify.
Thanks for the comments. If you send a photo to richardhemery@tiscali.co.uk I will do my best!
Very, very interesting! Cheers, Paige C.
Thank you Paige
Thankyou for yet another informative video. Tammy from Malaysia🌻
Hey Richard! Thanks for another great video! it's interesting that you mention the difference between Wera and Wesa wares being the lines on the base. I'm a potter , and these types of base details are actually a much discussed topic among potters. It's hard to tell how straight they are, but I think the lines are not caused by being set on something with ridges on it and those causing an impression, but rather that the ridges are made by the string or wire used to detach the pot from the wheel when throwing. Do you think this might be the case? Is there much record of how they're made? I've discovered the following in my ceramic explorations: A twisted string will form round bottomed ridges, whereas a braided string or wire will give a smoother finish. Some folks these days even use a stretched out pen spring for neat design. Often potters will spin the wheel while wiring a pot off causing a swirl. I've learned tons watching your videos. Best from Denver, CO
Hello Liam, thanks for your comments. The Weser pottery base lines are completely straight and parrallel, which makes me think it was not the cheesewire marks, unless they managed it very carefully. I see these on the base of the Bartmann stoneware jugs, and they are always circular, meeting at one point.
@@richardhemery6916 that's very interesting! I've never seen such a bottom before... I may have to have a go at it and see if I can duplicate it.
All good things,
Liam
Thank you I just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you so much fro Calgary Canada. 🇨🇦
thank you!!!
Thank you for another great, informative video 😊
Richard.....Again a wonderful presentation.......so informative on the pottery that one always took for granted. The no 1 find - the stove brick was brilliant. In fact, years ago I was in the Televised adaptation of Shaw's Arms and the MAN in Sth Africa in 1976. In the studio set was a similar stove which intrigued me no end. I always wondered if it was but never questioned it's suitability as a set piece but as the play was set somewhere in Europe I just imagined it was correct............and now I am thankful you have appeased my curiosity after so long. BTW there was a question I posed to you re that massive chunk of flint that you picked up when you and Nicola went mudlarking together. sorry I didn't not the date. The question was how do you suppose the 'chunk' found it's way to London. Was it carried, do you think by an extraordinary flood from the upper reaches of the Thames . Still curious. But thank you for today. Kirk in Australia . PS the Casserol was a delightful eye opener. Wonderfully basic but thought through. German attention to technicality as usual.
Thank you Kirk, I'm glad you liked it. Flint occurs naturally in London and South East England, so there is always plenty on the foreshore or in the cliffs by the sea.
Tims_mudlarking? Or Thames_mudlarking?? Your amazing and I’d like to follow your channel
On instagram I am @thames_pottery.
You will have to go out with Sci-finds, Nichola White and gang.
I love your videos, but your voice is so quiet! I have to use headphones to learn from you. 😊
Sorry I must learn to speak up!
He has a lovely voice and it soft..At our house (on the Treasure Coast of Florida) ear phones have become a necessity during our "isolation".... They make for much better harmonious relations ....24/7 together makes for very long days and nights....Richards chanel had provided a wonderful destination for us all during this world event. He now has almost 4K friends . ... All his hard work and thoughtfulness the # should be many more.
At the bottom of the video pane is a speaker icon - perhaps check this isn't all the way at the lowest setting?
I have checked & double checked. On my phone & tablet.
Every time you post, your hair gets a little bit longer :D
Yes, no barbers open!
Someone accidentally pressed the thumbs down button.
and forgot to un-press.
Sorry. "Richard". Coffee hasn't kicked in.