Topic: Gnome more jokes about garden gnomes....

[M]

So hands up all those who though garden gnomes are naf, very naf???
In plastic and concrete, this is probably the case...... but, in terracotta, and from the 19th and early twentieth centuries, from makers in Germany, Bohemia and Austria, the gnome is making significant progress as a collectable. Older companies, such as Maresch, Grafenroda, Bloch and to a lesser degree Heissner, are now drawing signifiicant attentiom, with recent large  items from Maresch, for example, fetching @ ?900 per item, and Bloch, the Bohemian manufacturer (Dubi, Teplice) whose gnomes are regularly commanding prices in the low hundreds of pounds. Clearly these are not items to be left out on your lawn all winter, as frost damage is a serious cause of damage.
Regards,
Marcus

[Sue C]

Blimey Marcus  there are quite a few salvage stores around here, and garden gnomes are always stacked in a corner, i will pay more attention to them in future, thanks for the tip off 

[dantheman]

Excuse me Marcus!
My gnomes are plastic!!

[M]

 "Dig your way out of that one, M"
 

 
M

[josordoni]

Here you are...all you ever wanted to know about the history of German gnomes...http://www.gnomeland.co.uk//HISTORY.htm

You will notice that they didn't originate in Zurich after all...

[dantheman]

Horst and Matilde.

[dantheman]

Don't think you can talk them around,once Matilde gets a bee in her bonnet about something there's no going back

[chopin-liszt]

 

I know nothing about makers, but I have loved the proper really old ones for a long time. Saw a set, back in 98, Michael wouldn't let me buy them.

Got a squeaky toy Grumpy (minus squeak) and put him in the garden.

Also, am in love with the bronze lizards in a park in Amsterdam, can't afford bronze, got a big green Chinese rubber lizard. It sits in the grass.