Page 35 - the Alan Blakeman Catalogue

70. DANIEL LAMBERT INKWELL. 2.4ins tall. Variating
salt glaze - darker at the top, c. 1830-50, Derbyshire area made. Daniel Lambert torso similar to previous lot with finer
detailing. D. LAMBERT impressed to rear and this example featuring a small raised plinth to bottom. Exc/ A1. 9.5/10.
£800-1,200+
71. DANIEL LAMBERT INKWELL. 2.5ins tall. Very shiny and highly variating mostly dark salt glaze, c. 1830-50, Derbyshire area made? Daniel Lambert torso similar to previous with slight detail differences and D. LAMBERT impressed to rear. This is the largest of the four examples offered here. Very rare. Exc/ A1. 9.5/10. £800- 1,200+
72. DANIEL LAMBERT INK BOTTLE. 2.1ins tall. Shiny brown glaze. Familiar upper torso with front buttoned jacket, both arms bent
each side. Wide opening at top and two side quill holes. (AB p19) A small lip flake was professionally repaired many moons ago. Never seen another similar? 8.5/10. NR. £200-300+
A driven collector never says never, persistence pays off! With a mini bus full of school children I stopped, in vain, yet again - shop still not open.
Eyes pressed up to the window I spotted on the floor a small business card. Dashed back to the mini bus to find a scrap of paper and the obligatory pencil with broken end! Aided by the children we deciphered the telephone number, phone box across the road. Rung it and got a rather angry shop owner “do you realise it’s Sunday?” When I told him what I had espied he snapped “how much is it?” “I can’t see the price it is at the back of the shop!” He retorted “well, how do you know you can afford it?”
the story behind my first found Daniel Lambert ink...
In my very early years teaching at Wath School, maybe about 1976, I had started to take the odd mini bus of school children out rock climbing at week-ends.
One Sunday we pulled in to Chapel en le Frith for a pit stop - crisps, chocolate, pop etc. Directly opposite the newsagents was an Antique shop so I popped over to look in the window. It was very dark but right at the back I spotted a small green topped Doulton Dewars water jug. Unfortunately it was not open and there was no notice
giving trading hours.
I was intrigued, nay keen, so the following Sunday I just happened accidentally
(wink, wink!) to pull up to exactly the same newsagents to get some snacks for my family... out for a little Peak District jaunt. Shop not open again.
Over a period of months I somehow/ coincidentally dropped upon the same village for a pit stop, but the Antique shop just never seemed open.
Reluctantly he said he would open... and I was gobsmacked when he came out of the house next door - after all this chasing!
Best part - when he picked up the small mint Dewars Doulton jug priced £10 (I think) there behind (same price) was the little shiny brown Lambert ink. A deal was struck!