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Wedgwood and Co. Ltd. Note on the 'two' Wedgwood companies: Wedgwood and Co., Ltd., of the Unicorn Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent; makers of earthenware and founded in 1835 by Enoch Wedgwood. This company was not related to its larger and more famous namesake, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd. (Est. 1759) who were based variously in Burslem, Etruria and Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, and were manufacturers of Earthenware, Stoneware and Bone China. Ultimately, big Wedgwood took over little Wedgwood, renaming the latter in the 1980s the Unicorn Pottery.
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Barbecue
(c. 1955) Meat plate Earthenware, with underglaze monochrome transfer print of kitchen implements. Also seen with the transfer print in bright red (on hollow ware). Dated on the back "7 55". This backstamp is listed as being current in the Pottery Gazette (Reference Book and Directory) of 1955. If the date stamp on the piece below is correct, then this design predates Ridgway's Homemaker pattern by one year. Value: £20 |
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Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd.
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Bull
* according to Alan Peat, writing in "Austerity to Affluence" (Merrell Holberton Publishers, London). |
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Crown Ducal Little Pedro and Petit Pierre for Rington's tea. Crown Ducal was the trade name of A. G. Richardson and Co. Ltd., Britannia Pottery, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent. The earthenware vases from this series are relatively common; they appear regularly on eBay and usually fail to sell. Also seen, much less often, are heart-shaped dishes with gilded rims, rectangular sandwich plates, footed bowls with supporting plate, kidney dishes and other shapes. The backstamp often includes the mark of Rington's Tea, so maybe these were issued as promotional pieces that people could send off for? Please email me if you know any more about this, or about Rington's.
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Little
Pedro vase 292 Like the Petit Pierre vase from the same series, this is a relatively common piece. 'Little Pedro' appears in script under the donkey's hooves. Mint condition. Value: £0.50p - £1 |
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Petit
Pierre 274 Pair of identical vases with lugs and circular ribbed effect, and a painted blue band round the rims. A coloured transfer of Petit Pierre, with improbably pink skin, is shown of the front. On the back are various of the plants that he is selling. Really nice vases these, in mint condition. Incredibly, some sad eBay sellers list these as "VERY RARE!!" which they are certainly not. The body shape seems to me to be 1930s or 40s, and the ribbed effect is quite inappropriate for a large transfer pattern; maybe Crown Ducal were being lazy and simply reused an old body-shape? Value: £1-2 (pair) |
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Crown Ducal Arizona
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Dinner plate With scalloped edge. This attractive range usually carries a colourful backstamp. This particular plate does not, however, because it is a second — as indicated by the pit drilled into the middle of the backstamp (see photo, lower right). Value: £1-2 |
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Founded in 1966. Manufacturers of stoneware. Still in business - click here for website.
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Playing
card money box Gilt pattern on dark brown stoneware. From its style, I would guess that this dates from the late sixties or early seventies. For example, Hornsea produced Wars of the Roses mugs with gilt on a black body in 1966-67 and Portmeirion's Gold Phoenix, dating from the late 60s, also had gilt on black decoration). Mint condition. Value: £5 |
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Argyle, England
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Milk
jug with late 60s pattern. Bone china. Value: £0.50p - £1 |
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Tardis vase (possibly 1960s)
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This is a great one. I made the name up, but the dimples do look like the interior pattern in the Tardis on Dr Who. A correspondent tells me that he remembers buying one new in the 1960s, possibly in London. Earthenware. The dimples are reminiscent of a vase made by Inge Böttger (see no. 30 in Keramiek der 50er Jahre by Horst Makus). Also seen in a lilac colour (Your Collections 8). This white one is smaller than the lilac, and is in mint condition apart from a few crazing lines which only become visible when the piece is wet. The backstamp reads 'Kingston Pottery Hull Made in England'. I've only seen this vase twice, both times in Holland. Please email if you have spotted it in the UK or elsewhere. Value: I think this cost 5 euros from a fleamarket in 2003.
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Kensington Ware Kensington Pottery Ltd. Trubshaw Cross, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Makers of earthenware.
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Spotted duo |
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Holkham Holkham Pottery, Ltd., Holkham, Wells, Norfolk. Makers of earthenware.
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Special Air Service (SAS) mug We are the pilgrims, master; we shall go always a little further: it may be beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow: across that angry or that glimmering sea. (This comes from JAMES ELROY FLECKER: The Golden Journey to Samarkand) |
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Data from 1963: "Crown Clarence" was a trade name for earthenware produced by the Cooperative Wholesale Society, Ltd. Windsor Pottery, Clayton Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The company also made 'Windsor Bone China".
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Tea plates Showing a trowel and plant pot, in alternating boxes. The pot is on a background of vertical stripes and edged on the left with sky blue. Also seen with a yellow edge band, and yellow hollow ware. The backstamp includes the code JD. Value: £1-2 |
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(motif on reverse
of vase)
