Clarice Cliff Collection a Rare Treat ; As We Sink Into Depression, It Seems As If History Is Repeating Itself in Greeting Some Wonderfully Brightly Painted Ceramics for Sale. When Some Colourful Housewares Come Under the Auctioneer's Gavel in Bonhams, London, On Wednesday to Invite Bids, It Will Be in an Economic Climate Similar to When They Were Conceived in the 1930s.

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As we sink into depression, it seems as if history is repeating itself in greeting some wonderfully brightly painted ceramics for sale. When some colourful housewares come under the auctioneer's gavel in Bonhams, London, on Wednesday to invite bids, it will be in an economic climate similar to when they were conceived in the 1930s.

Colley Shorter was an excellent businessman, able to see opportunities where others could not, and he eagerly accepted the Newport Pottery along with all remaining blanks, which were usually just thrown away.

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Clarice Cliff Collection a Rare Treat ; As We Sink Into Depression, It Seems As If History Is Repeating Itself in Greeting Some Wonderfully Brightly Painted Ceramics for Sale. When Some Colourful Housewares Come Under the Auctioneer's Gavel in Bonhams, London, On Wednesday to Invite Bids, It Will Be in an Economic Climate Similar to When They Were Conceived in the 1930s.

But this was during the Great Depression in 1927 and, when asked by her boss, the young Clarice Cliff su...

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