Tremar Pottery
Examples of Pieces Produced by Tremar Pottery
Tremar Pottery Reference Pages – Contents Page
These pages provide information about Tremar Potteries of Tremar and Liskeard in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and documentation of pieces produced by that company. Information about the pieces is provided on separate pages. Links to those pages appear below.
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What is Tremar Pottery?
Roger and Doreen Birkett established Tremar Pottery in 1962. Originally Roger made the products himself, but over time the company expanded to three locations. The original hand-thrown pieces gave way pieces produced using molds. All of them sold well.
The produced small pieces for collectors including people, animals, boats, cars and buildings. They also produced larger size pieces including money boxes (piggy banks), mugs, storage containers and other pieces for service or kitchen use.
The pieces are generally marked on the bottom in at least a couple of different styles that presumably changed over time.
The company closed in 1983.
Tremar Pottery - Ships - Tugboat in Service - For more information about the Tremar Pottery Ships, please click on the link below.
Where is Tremar?
Tremar is located in the United Kingdom, in England, in the eastern part of Cornwall. It is a small village that is about two miles north of Liskeard which isn’t all that big itself.
What Happened to Tremar Pottery?
Tremar Pottery was a successful company for years with salespeople traveling around the UK calling on dealers and making sales. Tremar Pottery representatives attended trade shows at Olympia in London and at the NEC (National Exhibition Center) in Birmingham. The company also offered pieces to dealers during at least one trade show in the US.
So what brought production in this successful company to a screeching halt? It was a major catastrophe at the production facility. A kiln exploded in 1983. The explosion caused tremendous damage to the entire facility, and the company decided that the cost of making repairs and rebuilding the kiln was too high. It was that explosion that put an end to production of Tremar Pottery.
Additional Information about Tremar
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Tremar Pottery - Safari Animals - Hippo Bathing- For more information about the Tremar Pottery Safari Animals, please click on the link below.
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Collectible Pieces Produced by Tremar Pottery
Other Pieces Produced by Tremar Pottery
Drinking Ware (other than mugs)
Additional Information About Tremar Pottery
The Unfortunate End – Tremar Pottery Stops Production
Very intresting website, i was directed there by a James Wallman of Sydney to whom i took some Tremar pieces when visiting Australia from the UK at Christmas.
Two things; there are several missing pieces from your website, unless i have missed seeing them. These are the cats of which i think there were five, the donkey, the foal, and a larger than usual horse.
i believe these were made very late on in Tremars history and possibly after the “fire” by a brother, though i cannot verify this. They were all stamped Tremar Uk.
I started collecting Tremar some ten years ago after finding a small Cornish shop literally stuffed with them gathering dust in an old cupboard. Alas almost all sold to pay two sons University fees.
A lot i sold to a collector here in Bristol who still has EVERYTHING they produced. i have promised James that i will try and photograph them for him and i will try and send them to you as well. Is there anything in particular you would like photos of? The cats etc?
I think i was in touch with “Jim” some years ago and am sorry he couldn’t find a publisher for his book. Try again Jim!
Ian
Hi,
I have three items from the little dogs collection: Number 1, 3 and 6. They are in boxes. Any idea on price would be appreciated.
Oli
Tremar pottery were running from 1960 then closed up in 1983, so your Tremar pottery is in that age range.
I have just purcashed a Tremar dinner service, can any one tell me are the pieces dish washer safe?
many thanks
I’d be interested in seeing a copy of your book, Jim. Please get in touch. Sarah
Dear Jim
I have, unknowingly, owned a Tremar lion for years – research today has revealed that is is a baby lion (two triangles on head) and an incised mark ‘Tremar UK’ underneath. What I haven’t been able to find out is its age. Is it possible you’d be able to tell me? Thank you.
I’m sorry your book didn’t find a publisher. Perhaps you’d have better luck now that Cornish pottery is so much sought after.
Best wishes
Cecilie
Just wanted to let you know that we have found one more Tremar Tiny Bird Figurine and it is currently listed on eBay under our ID: sebbie152003
Hello, I used to run the Tremar Collectors Club. During the time of running th club I managed to get all the pieces ever made by Tremar, including lots of the items that were confused with Tremar and are still being confused on ebay. I did pen a book about the pottery after having a meeting with Mr Birkett, who gave us the items that were rare, and items that He did not think actully got into the market place, namely the Tenmoku Glaze items a Dark Brown smooth finished pottery, of which the coffee pot, water jug only a hand full were made as test pieces,
Sadly I could not get publishing for the book,
Best Wishes
Jim