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Barker Bros. Ltd. Meir Works, Barker St., Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Makers of earthenware. Trade names include "Royal Tudor" ware. Barker Bros also produced the Chianti pattern, decorated with wine bottles, grapes and fruit.
Fiesta Barker Bros., Royal Tudor Ware, Staffordshire. This pattern came in monochrome blue (without the fluted margin) and multicolour variants. Judging by the body shape of Fiesta, including coupé plates, and also the shape and decoration of the coffee pot illustrated in the pattern (see below), this range dates from the first half of the 1960s. Other ranges with kitchen implements or domestic items include Homemaker by Ridgway, Caldor ovenware by Empire, Longline by Pountney, Barbecue by Wedgwood, and a range by Crown Devon. Note: Coupé is French for cut-off, and indicates a plate without a rim. Traditional English plates had rims, but in the mid-fifties, coupé styles became popular, and were a mark of modernity (as with Midwinter's Fashion body shape of 1955).
	Cup and saucer multicolour variant. Earthenware. The cup and saucer have crimped margins. The term 'dishwasher safe' could indicate a date as late as the 1980s or early 1990s. They are common. Value: £5
	Coffee pot Mint condition except some underglaze shrinkage lines on rim, and some crazing lines on the lower part of one side. Earthenware. Value: £35
	Meat plate Mint condition, with tripod scars below. Earthenware. Value: £10
South Pacific Presumably influenced by the Rogers and Hammerstein South Pacific musical (1949) or film (1958). Seen with pale blue hollow ware. Royal Albert also made a South Pacific pattern (abstract).
	Dinner Plate Superb polychrome pattern. Earthenware. Mint condition. Click here for higher resolution image. Value: £2-5 (each).
	Serving platter Click here for larger image. Value: £10
The Gondoliers This must have been a stock transfer pattern because it is also seen on pieces made by Brexton.
	Serving plate I would date this from the early to mid-fifties, because of the handpainting, the traditional shape, and the presence of a rim, in contrast to the coupé (rimless) Fiesta plate (above) which is presumably early sixties. Earthenware. Value: £2-5
Chianti Lush, hand coloured transfer design with a chianti bottle, grapes and other fruit. With bright yellow flatware.
	Pair of dinner plates These make superb display pieces. No damage or crazing, only some surface cutlery scratches. Value: £4-10 (pair)
Chateau
	Side plate Unusual and uncommon pattern, showing a partly open window, flanked on one side by a curtain, and framed below with colourful flowers in the window box, looking out onto a landscape. Earthenware. Not normally my kind of taste, but the whole effect is slightly dreamy and surreal, which I like. Value: £2