I have spoken and emailed to Kevin form this company. They are basically an import base on the east coast for Trinity pottery in England. Trinity itself will not send directly to a buyer but will ship through Eastcoast. I found Kevin to be exceedingly nice and easy to talk to. He was willing to drive to my house with samples so I could look at them. I am still on the fence about ordering because he said the pottery was more suited for display than use.
I sent him my concerns about this and he responded promptly with the following note.
Hi Steve,
As I said there is no rush. I just wanted to give you first opportunity on the items while they are here in stock. If you like I can arrange to bring the items to you to have a look at as I think it would be the best way for you to decide whether they are suitable or not.
With reference to your concerns regarding the items as 'Display objects', I think I should explain a little further.
Firstly and most importantly the disclaimer is written to protect against fraudulent warranty claims. As you must be aware, it would be very difficult to write a guarantee for these products if they are to be used in everyday life. The risk of damage would be too great and it would be very difficult confirm any such damage was a result of a defect in the product or purely accidental damage.
This does not mean that the products cannot be used as they were originally designed. Indeed, Trinity themselves state that customers DO 'use' them frequently. Although these items truly are authentic reproductions of the originals, there is no guarantee of what life span these originals would have had or in what conditions they would have been used.
In addition, Trinity produce these products as authentic as far as modern materials allow. Sometimes the source of original raw material is simply unavailable today or differs slightly. Also, manufacturing techniques are as close as possible but not always guranteed to be totally accurate. All this adds up to these products being authentic to the highest possibility, but NOT guaranteed to be 'exact copies' as you would expect from a printing.
I hope this explanation is helpful and look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Kevin
I will be placing an order from Kevin in about 2 weeks and I could give a report if you would like.
Steve
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posted 12-30-2004 12:07 AM
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