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Collector plates
with Birds
These are various Limited Edition plates with birds as subjects.
These may or may not have a Bradex number.
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BASIL EDE
The following are most of the Garden Birds of the World plate series by Basil Ede issued in the 1980s
These plates have a book value of about $55.00 each.
Basil Ede (born 1931 in England) is a British wildlife artist specialising in avian portraiture. The first one man exhibition of Basil Ede's work was held at the Rowland Ward Gallery in London in 1958.Further one man exhibitions followed at London's Tryon Gallery in 1960 and 1962.
In 1964, Ede became the first living artist to be honoured with a one man show at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. The event was sponsored by the British Embassy, the English Speaking Union and the National Audubon Society
In 1965, Ede's first book, "Birds of Town and Village" was published by Country Life Books, featuring thirty six plates of his work in full colour. The publication features a foreword written by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and text by prominent ornithologist W. D. Campbell. The book was reprinted many times and was republished by Chartwell Books in 2004.
In 1966, 1971 and 1979 one man exhibitions of Ede's work were held at the Kennedy Galleries in New York. In 1971 Ede was commissioned by Walter Annenberg, then serving as United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, to paint a series of eastern Pennsylvanian birds for his private collection.Also in 1971, a chance encounter with another American collector, Jack Warner, led to the commissioning of "The Wild Birds of America" series.Described as a "very ambitious project", the commission was to paint every species of wild bird in North America, 650 in all, in life size.Robert McCracken Peck, in his essay "Four Centuries of Avian Portraiture", says that the project "...has been compared in scope to John James Audubon's twenty eight year effort to document and celebrate the birds of North America", but adds, "so limited a comparison fails to put into proper perspective the much larger tradition of bird painting in America with which both Audubon and Ede are intimately interlinked."
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Peter Barrett
Peter Barrett was a graphic designer and illustrator by profession. In 1972, he moved into a woodland retreat in England, and has concentrated on finely detailed watercolours of English wildlife and large nature abstracts since then. He is well established as a children's book illustrator, animal artist and a nature artist.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Barrett teamed up with Franklin Porcelain. Franklin Porcelain used "Peter Barrett" as a signature brand. Among his crafted and painted products with Franklin Porcelain were a set of thimbles with handpainted images of birds on them, a set of 12 plates with images of the twelve months in the country handpainted on them (called "The Country Years"), a set of plates with handpainted depictions of animals (titled "All Creatures Great and Small") and porcelain figurines of birds. The porcelain figurines of birds were placed upon a porcelain bell. Hence, Bell Birds.
Peter Barrett also designed and provided the artwork for a set of United Kingdom postage stamps depicting dogs in 1979. A commemorative first day cover was also brought out.
Since these all have various species of birds on them they are located here.
Below are most of the sensational "Country Years" plates
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