Set Of 7 Mudlen End Numbered Cottage Collection Made In England Some Rare Mint

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MULDEN ENDSET OF 7NUMBERED COTTAGE COLLECTIONFROM :" James Hart trained at the Bath Academy of Arts in Corsham and by the early 60's was teaching art and ceramicsat Beyton Modern School in Suffolk. Sometime in 1964 a colleague took in a model house made in the 1920's by 'Goss' and challenged Mr. Hart that he couldn't make one like it. He made a model, then a mould, and made 50 of them.They were well received and most of them were bought by fellow teachers.By 1965 Mr. Hart was living in a cottage called "Mudlen End" when he gave up teaching and became a full time potter,although he did run art evening classes in Bury St. Edmunds and at Beyton School.He put the remaining of the 50 houses that he had made in his showroom and these were eagerly bought by a group ofAmerican visitors. More visitors arrived asking if he had any more and that prompted Mr. Hart to begin to produce somealong with his other work.Mudlen End continued to grow and in 1977 was registered as a limited company and a larger workshop was built. It wasalso a time when there was a lot of interest in large orders for the American market. Mudlen End cottages had steadily'infiltrated' into the United States, mainly because they were bought in large numbers by service men and womenstationed at the many U.S. airbases in and around Suffolk. They were bought as mementos of read more

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