Brumby Pottery Collection Part A

Yes, we collect Southern Pottery.  I'll blog more about this soon, but I just wanted to get a few photos posted today.

Peggy Pitts, Cone Ten Pottery, Watkinsville, GA

Michael DeBerry, Tucker, GA

David Meaders, GA

Marie Rogers, Jugtown Potters, Upson & Pike Counties, GA

Furniture by J. N. Poe

Donna's great grandfather, James Nugan Poe, died before I was born.  My mom told me a bit about him over the years.  He was a minister.  He liked target shooting with pistols in a dueling style.  He made homemade wine which he doled out in shot glass amounts on special occasions.  He was a stern sort of man.  And he was, wonderfully, a self-taught fine cabinetmaker.  He studied antiques in books and magazines and made faithful reproductions completely by hand.  No electric machinery.  He made his own hand planes.  He worked almost exclusively in Cuban mahogany and built most of his furniture in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the late 1920's and into the 1930's.  Some of his furniture was purchased by well-to-do residents on Lookout Mountain.  He marked a lot of his work by stamping his name (J. N.

Poe) and the date into the wood.  Here are our examples of his handiwork:

Compelled to Collect

 The Asheville Citizen once published a story about Edward and me collecting stuff (books, comic books, Bugs Bunnies, UT football cards, David Winter Cottages.....).  Space and funds finally dictated a reduction in collecting.  I decided to collect something inexpensive, small, and not that easy to find: miniature chamber pots.  Why?  I had one little chamber pot that belonged to my Aunt Lucille, who died at twelve years old, even before her youngest brother, my dad, was born.  It is a little china pot from Germany.  Along the outside it says "Attend to your own business," and inside, in the bottom, there is a painting of an eye.  The next little chamber pot I ever saw was many, many years later in my hometown (Blue Ridge, GA).  It had a little doggy or piggy or kitty or something peeking out.  I was hooked.  Along came ebay to build my collection, but it's still nice to have something small and relatively inexpensive to look for whenever we cruise through antique malls.  I don't try to collected duplicates.  We ran up to Brazelton today and I found three new ones!

Aunt Lucille's little chamber pot

Donna's collection #1

Donna's collection #2 (forgive the pun!)

Mrs. Brumby Cocktail

2 oz. Jack Daniel's Wiskey
1 oz. Dubonnet Rouge
2 or 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
ice
1 large cocktail cherry with stem (preferably homemade!)

Combine liquids in small pitcher or mixing glass with ice.  Stir (shaking would cloud the whiskey).  Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with cherry.  Sit down with the glass, sip and relax.