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An English pottery has just unearthed a piece of airship and aircraft history which has lain forgotten for over 70 years.

The moulds for an airship teapot have been discovered in the stores of a Stoke-on-Trent pottery, Racing Teapots. The discovery was made after the pottery's managing director, Peter Wood, was sorting through old company records and came upon some musty notes and newspaper clippings from the 1920s, about the long distance journeys of the Graf Zeppelin. There is a small note on one of the newspapers, written in pencil, which says, “Shall we make an Airship Teapot?” There is another note which says “Airship in Canada. Get the teapot into production.” Another note reads, “Release the Airship in October, in time for Christmas. Put lustre on the fins, lid, spout and windows. Look at adding transfers...” This note is dated July 1930. The last note says, “Send the ten Airships to Germany as promised. Do not offer these teapots for sale elsewhere (R101)!” This is dated October 1930.

So it was concluded that moulds had existed for an Airship Teapot which was withdrawn from production, following the R101 crash. Peter noted the mould's reference number and after looking for nearly 6 hours, the Airship Teapot master mould was finally located, covered in dust.

Peter decided to try and salvage the mould to make an Airship Teapot. "You can imagine how emotional we all were, at the factory, when the Airship emerged (in one piece) from the kiln; the first teapot from the mould in over 70 years," says Peter.

Racing Teapots' top decorator then applied bright platinum lustre, which contains real silver, as directed by the notes of 1930.

Racing Teapots has now put the Airship Teapot back into production, along with the world's first aeroplane teapot (first made in the 1920s), and a number of other Art Deco designs, which are all transport based.
You can see the Airship and other designs by looking at the company's website www.racingteapots.com.

The Airship Teapot, which measures 260 x 90 x 100 mm (11 x 3.5 x 4in), and the Aeroplane teapot which measures 220 x 220 x 110 mm (9.0 x 9.0 x 4.5 in), is available directly from Racing Teapots at the recommended retail price
of £60 (Eur 95). You can contact Racing Teapots on +44 (0) 208 319 4106, email them for more information - or to discuss personalisation of the Airship and Aeroplane teapots - if you want something totally unique.

A blimp version of the teapot is now also available from Racing Teapots.

Peter Wood
Managing Director
Racing Teapots Ltd
Tel: +44 020 8319 4106
www.racingteapots.com
e-mail

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