Frank, where did you get those "Animals"? Gary Animal was talking of making some cups, but I haven't heard that he is back in business yet. I'd love to get my hands on a set of Babes or the James Riser Jumbos.

Flimnar

Those are both very nice collections!

I want to thank everyone for their kind words regarding the interview. Pepka and Scott came in without any axes to grind. They just pushed my buttons and turned me loose!

It was a very pleasant experience for me.

LET'S SEE SOME MORE OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL CUP COLLECTIONS!!!!

Hi Richard,
Could you list what your cups are?
Tom

Hi Tom

I've been away for a few days and only just saw your post. Give me a cople of hours and I'll see what I can do.

Richard

Posted: Jul 22, 2007 12:13pm
A few people have e-mailed/PM'd asking about some specific sets in the original photo. For those curious about a particular set, this numbered photo should help identify the cups of interest.

1. Harry Stanley cups – chromed
2. Harry Stanley – chromed & engraved
3. Van Dokkum Chicken Chop cup
4. Burtini – Type A
5. Burtini – Type B
6. Riser Traditional – copper
7. Riser – ‘new’ mini – copper
8. Riser ‘old’ mini – copper
9. Riser – Jumbo – copper
10. Riser – Standard – copper
11. Riser – Ramsay cups – aluminium
12. Magic Makers – Mega Street Cups – copper
13. Steve Elvay cups – copper
14. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Prototype tall street cups – copper
15. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Stubby Street cups – copper
16. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – mini cups – copper
17. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – mini cups – guild metal
18. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – three-ring tall street cups – copper
19. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – two-ring tall street cups – copper
20. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Babe – copper
21. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Love cups – copper
22. Charlie Miller cups (Magic Inc) – copper
23. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Super Animal (small-top Gazzo) – copper
24. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – NewAnimal – copper
25. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Love cups – guild metal
26. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Gazzo cups – brass
27. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Gazzo cups – guild metal
28. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – Gazzo cups – copper
29. Gary Knights (Gary Animal) – original Animal cups – copper
30. Ross Bertram cups – copper
31. Auke van Dokkum – Traditional cups – stainless steel
32. Comi traditional cups – brass
33. Comi traditional cups – copper
34. Unknown maker – three-ring cups – copper
35. Bohemian cups – chromed
36. Juan Carlos Rodarte - Quezalcoatl cups – silver
37. Mark Burger House of Magic – Antique Pewter/gold cups
38. Paul Fox/Danny Dew cups – Type 2 - copper
39. Hindu cups from Pete Biro
40. Paul Fox/Jeff Busby cups (spun) – copper
41. Paul Fox/Danny Dew – Type 1 – chromed
42. Indian cups by Owen Magic Supreme – painted wood
43. Tayade – Wetern-style cups
44. Keith Bennett - chromed cups
45. Christian Jedinat – chromed cups
46. Tayade Snr - Indian cups – type 1
47. Unknown maker – Indian cups – painted wood
48. Tayade Snr – Indian cups – type 2
49. Sherwood cups – copper
50. Sherwood cups – brass
51. Sherwood cups – chromed copper
52. Sherwood cups – smooth gold
53. Sherwood cups – smooth silver/gold
54. Sherwood cups – engraved silver/gold
55. Sherwood cups – smooth silver
56. Sherwood cups – engraved silver
57. Sherwood cups – engraved gold

If I get time this week, I'll see if I can post some of the other cups in the collection, including all the great stuff from Jake at RnT2.


Richard

Richard, that is a fantastic collection you have there. So you are one of the four who has the complete collection of Sherwood cups. Congratulations to that.

Thanks James.

I don't know how many people have the full set of Sherwoods - but Bill Palmer certainly has.

From what I heard there are only 4 people having the complete Sherwood sets. I may be wrong. Brett Sherwood may be able to confirm this.

There may be others - some collectors keep quiet about the conents of their cabinets! Brett Sherwood may not even know who owns a full set since some sets will not have been purchased directly from him.

I don't know of anyone who owns all eight full sets plus the matching combo cups - that's the royal flush of Sherwoods

I'm hoping Brett will turn out some more chop cups. I only have the engraved ones.

It would certainly feel estatic to own the full Royal Flush of the Sherwoods

I bartered just in the last 2 weeks or so and got 2 sets of Animal Cups and a set of Gazzo cups.

Both sets of animal cups hold a baseball with no issue but they are not really the same size. Makes me wonder.

Gary changed the design of the Animal cups last year (in fact, there were a couple of different designs). Personally, I prefer the older version made in the slightly lighter weight copper.

The Animal cups I own have an 8 cm interior diameter. What are the ID's on your two sets?


Curt

As far as I know there are now (4) complete sets of Sherwood Cups in collections.

Brett Sherwood, Bill Palmer, Bill Sutter, and Richard Evans.

Regards,
Bill Sutter

I am missing the silver smooth set although I do have 2 of the limited gold plated smooth sterlings. After Brett gets his batch of cups back from the makers, I will have the few missing chop cups I didn't order the first time around. Since I have not found an available smooth silver set (yet), I acquired silver plated, 2 chromed and 2 Antique Bronze finsished sets from Jake (and one from John Mendoza on ebay)....( I think they are all the Sherwood coppers underneath) When Brett took his most recent orders from us, I almost ordered 3 chopped silver smooths so I could pretend (to myself) that I had a complete looking set..... then sanity set in..... The silver plated and chromed will have to take care of me until a silver set is offered up eventually.... at that point, it will probably be beyond my price given the number of collectors who don't have this set.... such is life....

James

That's pretty impressive, James. How many sets does that make? Sounds like you're close to a full house of combo cups - and you have a couple of spare sets to do some bartering for that set of smooth silvers

My chromed Sherwoods were custom plated by Jake, who did a fantastic job. I'd love to see the antique bronze & silver plates that he did for you.

Richard

I will have to try posting the pic later... even though I am using the right file type and the right size and pixels, I keep getting the message that the file is too large.... Stay tuned....James

I've taken another route. I'm putting in the paperwork to simply get adopted by James. This way I will own all his sets when he's out of the house.

James you should be receiving my adoption dowry in 2 business days.
Perhaps you got the the email notification?

I couldn't show pictures of my collection without including some of the great cups produced by RnT2. I have emptied the RnT2 cabinet - the picture is here


Richard