Lovers of eye-catching items in 60s design know it, at least in Switzerland, at least when they hang around brocantes or flea markets … the Rössler porcelain, cups, plates, jugs in the colours green, yellow and blue. Tableware from the lowest edge of the Emmental, from Ersigen, probably also in the lower price segment at the time. Today not necessarily at all. I am currently offering the items on the platform tutti.ch. click here and scroll down
At my dear grandmother’s in the Oberland high above Lake Thun opposite the Niesen and other beautiful mountains, there were yellow cups, green plates and a blue Ankeplättli on the table at the beginning of the 70s, for example, the memory is still vivid. The soup plates were rich green. I happened to take a yellow cup with a green saucer. The fact that the Oberland comes first for me in terms of feelings of home – I originally come from the other typical peripheral region, the Emmental – is certainly not because the Langenthal crockery was too boring at home. Several of these Rössler items at “Grossmuetti” remained in my godfather’s cupboard until today. Today, if you’re lucky, you can get these pieces in second-hand shops, at flea markets or on the internet, especially the blue ones are rare and coveted and hard to get anymore, and if you do, they’re expensive.
I’ve been buying these pieces for the last 10-12 years or so, when they’ve come my way and weren’t too expensive. As for the mugs, I use the next generation Rössler myself in the same colours, these mugs are a bit more stable and a bit more goes in. The mugs from the probably over-above-above-next generation are also beautiful and practical. Now the time has come for me to part with a large part.
I wait for good offers, the parts don’t have to cost as much as in some online auctions, but the price has to be right, the quality is mostly excellent. I have trouble with the auction platform Ricardo, for various reasons, certainly not least because of the serious technical problems, so I go other ways. But it can’t be that I should now only get half for it. I don’t know what the fever in the auctions is all about. Maybe people pay more anonymously? For a blue cup with a saucer, I observede often prices around 80 francs in auctions lately, even for blue plates prices beyond good and evil. You can think what you want about it, but maybe it’s better to buy when buyer and seller are anonymous, maybe much better than in a shop? In the case of the cups, we are up to a factor of 30 compared to the original price of yesteryear, which is somewhat grotesque considering that this crockery was for the lower classes. It remains to be said that it actually only takes two top bidders, not to say fools, to achieve a top auction result. Moreover, auction results are only meaningful if there is a certain breadth.
I have chosen this way because on the one hand I have a souvenir here on my website and on the other hand I can cultivate more interesting relationships with customers, if that arises.
I have quite a few more, such as bowls, dough bowls in all sizes, plates and more.
If you want to know more about the history of the company and its top product, here are two older articles from the Bernerzeitung.
Retro im Chuchischäschtli – 2009
Von Rössler Porzellan zum Gartencenter – 2009
2020 – before Christmas
