Measurements have been taken with callipers as shown and are from the front of the teapot to (in the case of the car) the rear bump of the tail light.
There are two measurements given – the overall length and the width. Later pots post 2000 have been dipped and sprayed and some have glaze colour inside the teapot but the majority do not.Įarly Sadler Pink teapot showing glaze runs.Īt the end of each page there is a box giving measurements and valuations for the teapots for example! If the teapot does not have glaze inside the teapot it is not a genuine pre 1952 Sadler.
They were dipped without their lids so that the glaze coloured the inside of the teapot. Often the glaze colour of the lid is a different shade to the body of the teapot. The teapots were dipped into the glaze which led to runs, lack of evenness and to differential opaqueness. The holes were formed with what looks at times like a pencil being pushed into the soft clay and vary in diameter! The body of the teapot was slip cast but the strainer was made from a flat piece of clay shaped into the cast. The Sadler revival teapots of 1999 do not have a strainer, neither do some of copies and re-use of moulds. To my knowledge all Sadler teapots prior to 1952 have strainers. The 7 hole strainer is mainly seen with the mottled teapots and those with the Sadler banner back stamp. The usual or standard pattern is the 5 hole strainer as shown normally in the form of a cross. There are three main patterns 4, 5 or 7 hole strainers. To be a genuine pre 1952 Sadler it must have a strainer! But many copies and forgeries also have strainers! The internal strainer pattern is very important to the identification of the teapot. In view of the confusion I will adopt the Sadler OKT42.ĭetails of the Sadler manufacturer’s marks found on OKT42s are given in List of Sadler marks. The registrations at the front of the car sometimes have a gap but the rear number is always given as OK / T42. The standard way of writing early car registrations is to have a gap between the letters and numbers.
#SADLER TEAPOT RUSSIAN COLLECTION REGISTRATION#
Is the car registration OKT42, OKT 42, or OK T42? Sadler’s in their 2000 revival document describe them as OKT42 teapots. A perfect teapot is worth a premium above the suggested valuations.
Hence when collecting one would expect a few minor faults particularly on the pre-war pots. The lustre is easily polished away and many early pots have ‘bald’ spots on the mudguards and back of the driver’s head. I am unsure of the exact composition so for ease I will refer to it as silver. The lustre is described in different texts as silver, platinum, chrome. Where lustre is applied it is not as hard as one would expect from a metal glaze. The other place easily damaged is the underside of the lid where there is the retaining lip.The lids often are a slightly different glaze colour or opaqueness from the base and the fit to the pot sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. The ‘drip’ at the end of the spout is very prone to being knocked off and some pots have restorations here. If the teapots were used for making tea with boiling water the glaze soon crazed and on some pots there is a graduation of crazing from light at the lid to heavy nearer the base. The glaze often has bubble marks, is not even, as the pot was ‘dipped’ into the liquid hence the glaze runs. The important point to make is that these teapots were relatively cheap products at the time so they had chips, firing flaws and glaze faults from new.
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