Thematic : Teapots On Stamps.

Wow !
Thanks Mike

Willem Claeszoon Heda (1594-1670, approximately) was a Dutch artist who is best known for his detailed still-lifes of all the items at a meal, a dinner piece - here a breakfast piece. I'm not sure whether this is a tea or a coffee pot. The original hangs in the Schwerin museum of art, formerly east Germany, 1982.

Guess: Teapot.
Coffee pots need to be tall to distance the grounds from the spout.
Heda shows his spout near the bottom.
(He has some extraordinay paintings of breakfasts )

Just added some more to yesterdays list.

Mike

Yikes...steady on, I can't keep up.

This must be the stamp showing the Danish blue tea caddy of 1975. And just for good measure a pot to go with it. (One can recognize the master engraver anytime.)

Rod222, your first post wanted teapot stamps and you stated that there can't be more than a few dozen. Well I think we just passed that. And you should see the rest of stamps with "tea" related in them. Have fun. I sure did.


Nice Kriss

Mike

Good one Alexey. Teapot and kettles, modern and old all in one.

Mike

No teapots there, I believe, only kettles.

This Isle of Man Post Office celebration of the life and career of innovator Dr John C Taylor OBE highlights some of his many great achievements (with 6 stamps).
One of the inventions which have been central to his life; the bimetal kettle switch used in millions of households every day.

22crows, I see what you mean now that I look a bit more more closely at the stamp. I see on the stamp it says bimetol kettle switches. I take it that is the english for bimetal or a spelling error. To me that would only be found in electric kettles, bimetalic switches as most called today. Also in toasters and thermostatic devices using electricity.

As for teapots, my grandmother would use the one similar to the 4 black ones with flat bottoms, usually chromed, with removable top, shown on the stamps with the large round handle.

After the water boiled on the hot cover over the fire she would put the teabags in and left it on the side of the coalstove in her kitchen to steep. To me that qualifies it as as a teapot, but technically your probably right in that it is actually a kettle.

Mike

All this talking about teapots brought back memories. Having tea at your Momo's that she made for you. 80% milk and 20% tea and barely warm. Remember the fun time you had as a child. Couldn't resist singing this litte ditty when we were kids. Fun when your young.

I am a little teapot short and stout
Here is my handle, here is my spout,
Tip me over and pour me out.

Mike

My kids sang that ditty when they were very young.

If you magnify the IoM stamp sufficiently, you will see that it does say Bimetal (not Bimetol).

22 crows. I magnified the image before, and now again, but for some reason can still only see an o and not a before the L. ??hmm! Now I have to see the actual stamp.

Mike