More Boch!

And yes...there are still other people who are interested in Boch...

On Kapaza and SeniorenNet I found an ad of a lady who had collected Boch pieces for years and now wanted to sell over 200 pieces (!!) of her collection.
I quickly made a list with all the pieces I still needed and e-mailed it to here and ..... indeed, she had lots of the pieces that were on my list.

So, on Friday I took an early train to Ghent and from there another train to Kortrijk. The lady came to pick me up at Kortrijk Station (and brought me back too) and took me home to see the 11 squared dessert plates with rounded corners, 8 colorful cups an the little plates to put them on. All the pieces were still in good condition, so I payed, she wrapped them carefully in paper, put them in a box and there I went with my precious box back home.

Thanks to this purchase and the one from the lady in Charleroi I almost have all the pieces I wanted to collect. I already have most of the cups with their little plates. The only two cups I still have to find are two grey ones, but they seem rather rare. I also need a grey dessert plate, one emerald green soup plate with golden edge and a mint green dinner plate with golden edge.

Boch Frères is not only know for its crockery but also for quite famous Art Deco vases, for example by Charles Catteau. Even Quentin Blake (well-known from his illustrations in the Roald Dahl children books) had some of his incredible crazy birds decorating a sandwich platter and some bowls (the Up with birds! serie).

During recent years Boch Frères went through some changes, including a change of name, and is now know as Royal Boch. In 1994 they received the title of Supplier to the Royal Belgian Court and they still have lovely pieces!!

Boch Frères, La Louviere Belgium

Woohoo!!!

Thanks to eBay I have been able to buy some more pieces of the Boch set that was left when my grandmother past away about 24 years ago. Since the set wasn't complete anymore, nobody wanted it at the time and it was left in some old cupboard. I discovered the few pieces (5 dinner plates) when I was searching plates and cups to take with me to my students room. The three little plates (to put a cup on) stayed at home.

The set dates from the late fifties, early sixties (around the time when the World Exhibition was held in Belgium, 1958 to be precise) and has lovely pastel colors My pieces are meanly mint green, yellow, blue, rose and emerald green, bordeaux and grey.

My dad drove me all the way to Charleroi to pick up 11 dinner plates, 11 soup plates (all with a golden edge though), and 12 cute bowls with 'ears'.

The lady who sold this pieces also had some other very interesting pieces...2 of the dessert plates with rounded corners, cups in all the colors (except grey and yellow) and the matching little plates (to put the cups on). I just had to take them home too...

Next goal: trying to collect two items of every type and every color so I have a complete set of plates and cups.