Historic Vernon pottery will be available to the public at Antiques and Collectibles Sale

Museum & Archives of Vernon will be selling some of its local treasures next weekend.

Select pieces of the Ebring pottery collection will be available at the Vernon Collectors Club's Antiques and Collectibles Sale, according to a media release from the MAV.

Axel Ebring is well-known potter who immigrated to Canada from from Uppsala, Sweden and lived his later years in Vernon before he passed away in 1954.

He moved to Vernon to set up a studio in an old brick yard.

“With clay accessible behind his workshop and a supply of wood conveniently available, Ebring was back in full operation,” the release says. “He always used a kick wheel, wood-fired his kiln, and only used his eye to gauge the temperature of the kiln and the progress of the firing.”

But the museum’s Ebring collection continued to grow where it began “almost spilling off the shelves.” So last year it was decided that the collection would be slimmed down.

“When an object is removed from a museum it is ‘deaccessioned,” collections registrar Carolyn Ben said in the release. “At the Vernon Museum we follow deaccessioning policies laid out by the Canadian Museum Association.”

The pottery was first offered to other museums around B.C. but the MAV couldn’t find any takers.

So now the public has a chance to own some of Ebring’s pottery. It will be for sale at the Vernon Recrecreation Centre on March 10 and 11. The event runs from 2 to 8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $3.

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