{"id":1661,"date":"2010-06-03T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2010-12-25T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T19:06:50","slug":"scottish-china-mender-c-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Scottish china-mender, c.1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was sent to me by a Scottish collector of pottery &amp; porcelain who has been most generous in sharing his knowledge and examples from his collection with me. The photo by Alexander Beattie is included in Volume 6 of the series, &#8220;Peoples of All Nations&#8221;, edited by J.A. Hammerton. The caption reads: &#8220;Wandering china-mender camped by the pines of Rothiemurchus (Scotland)&#8221;, followed by: &#8220;He wends his way through the land, making a trifle at each village where thrifty folk may prefer the sight of a riveted jug to the cost of buying a new one. His push-cart carries house and belongings, and, when evening overtakes him, shelter and fire are soon ready, and while the pungent wood-smoke drifts about him he finishes some job for a local cottager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1662\" title=\"mender1 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1-copy.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1-copy-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close up of hand drilling, with jug in need of repair at his feet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1878\" title=\"mender1_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1_2.jpg 390w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mender1_2-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustystuff.co.uk\">Jim Horne<\/a> for\u00a0sending me this photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was sent to me by a Scottish collector of pottery &amp; porcelain who has been most generous in sharing his knowledge and examples from his collection with me. The photo by Alexander Beattie is included in Volume 6 of the series, &#8220;Peoples of All Nations&#8221;, edited by J.A. Hammerton. The caption reads: &#8220;Wandering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}