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Most of the late 1950s patterns have a gilt or silver rim. Where they had a pictorial backstamp, the standard Alfred Meakin backstamp is usually also present.

Official Pattern Name (on backstamp)	Description	Colour or Black-and-White transfer?	Estimated date

British Seaside and Fishermen Scenes
St. Ives
Polperro
Sea Breezes
Nice backstamp has a red-sailed yacht and a house with a flight of steps	Main picture shows a man in black beret, red face, black and red striped shirt, and green trousers; sitting at a table under a striped umbrella in front of buildings, on a cobbled street. Other smaller cameos show a sea view with a red-sailed yacht, with a house having a flight of front steps on the land in the foreground; and houses and a bridge on a cobbled way with a tree behind.	colour	2nd half 1950s
Brixham
?	Paris scene, with a colonnaded building (looking like the Pantheon without its dome, or the Palais de la Bourse), in front of which are a couple at a café table; smaller cameo shows woman in pink with a black poodle by a Morris advertising column. The pattern is unusual in being framed by a pale blue border on flatware.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
Red Sails backstamp shows a yacht with 1 red and one grey sail, and a yellow flag at the top of the mast	Two yachts with one red, one white sail each, a yellow flag at the top of each mast, two gulls, one of them bright red (Sic.) Palissy also did a Regatta range with red, blue, etc. sails. Washington Pottery produced a similar Blue Carribean showing a yacht with blue sails.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
Regatta backstamp shows 2 yachts one with a a red and a yellow sail, the other with a a red and a grey sail, both with a black flag at the top of the mast	Very similar to Red Sails (above). One picture is of 2 yachts, each with one red and one grey sail; overhead fly two seaguls, one grey, one yellow. Each has a yellow flag at the top of the mast. The other cameo shows a man tying a long vertical swag of yellow material, anchored with hoops to a pole topped with a fish. There is a lobster pot next to him. Not sure what this is all about. Coloured ropes are draped across one corner.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
Clovelly	(In North Devon). Fisherman in black wellingtons, green trousers, red and white striped shirt, with lobster pot and fishing net; a yellow brick tower, presumably a lighthouse, and houses, behind him; small pictures around the border of flatware showing: an anchor, net, chains and bollard, and an oil lamp.	colour	2nd half 1950s
St Ives
Fishermans Cove backstamp shows a sea-view with red-sailed yacht, framed by a railing and house with shutters, gulls overhead	Houses with red-tiled roofs and window shutters, sea in the distance, a cobbled street, two fishermen greeting; smaller cameo shows fisherman leaning on railings; gulls overhead	colour	2nd half 1950s
Hollywood/Broadway/Pop culture
Jivers	Have seen one marked 57. 1950s pop group performing on stage; dancing couples. Not to be confused with the very similar Royal Tunstall pattern of 1961.	Colour	c. 1957
My Fair Lady Also seen with Crown Goldendale backstamp.	Men and women in elegant evening wear. Presumably inspired by the stage play of the same name, which hit Broadway in 1956 and London's West End in 1958. The movie was released in 1964. but this design looks too early for the mid-1960s.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
Oklahoma	American couple in a canopied pony and trap.	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Black and grey horses pulling a red-canopied wagon from left to right, a man with whip driving; in the background, a red sun setting behind black and grey mountains. Presumably inspired by the US TV series Wagon Train (first broadcast in the US in 1957). Washington Pottery also produced a Wagon Trail design (1960).	colour	2nd half 1950s
London Town (backstamp has a colour picture of a flower lady with barrow). The precise place name, e.g. Trafalgar Square, is written on the front near the border of the pattern
	Trafalgar Square: with bowler-hatted gent and a bobby;	colour	2nd half 1950s
	Covent Garden: barrow boys	colour	2nd half 1950s
	Picadilly Circus: with Eros	colour	2nd half 1950s
	St. Pauls: showing the cathedral
Tally-Ho backstamp has horseshoe and hunting horn	Horses, their riders in hunting livery, outside a house; marginal cameos show hounds, fence, and a trio of horseshoe, crop and hunting horn	colour	2nd half 1950s
British visions of Foreign Countries
Lotus Island Backstamp with pink lotus flower	Water birds on a lake with a floating pink lotus flower; smaller cameo shows palm trees	colour	2nd half 1950s
Montmartre backstamp has a pink and white striped awning, a café table with bottle and glass, and a chair	French café with pink roof, pink and white striped awning, and man at a table outside; woman in distance, wearing pink dress, walks her poodle left to right	colour	2nd half 1950s
Down by the Seine backstamp has girl in pink dress and her black poodle, with an arched bridge behind	Almost identical to Montmartre, except the cafe terrace is surfaced with wooden boards, the cafe exterior has an arched doorway, and behind the woman and dog are a bridge with arches	colour	2nd half 1950s
	Dutch windmill	colour
Siesta backstamp shows man in sombrero asleep	Man in sombrero, asleep under the tree; woman fetching water from the well	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Circus horses with coloured feathers on head; stars	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Women in saris and with baskets on their backs, picking leaves from tea bushes	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Scarlet hollow-ware. Transfer printed flatware shows numerous small drawings of women and their poodles, Afghan hounds, etc.	b/w	2nd half 1950s
Patterns, Abstract
Random
Swirl backstamp with S-shape made up of paralell black lines	Pattern of S-shapes, each made up of paralell black lines; the hollow-ware in maroon		2nd half 1950s
?	hand-painted weave pattern with thin red, green and black lines, and thick red lines		2nd half 1950s
?	abstract swirling pattern	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	red border with white polka dots and white polka dot edge band; like Midwinter's Domino
Samoa	floral transfer print	b/w	1960s/70s
Gay Fantasy	leaves in autumnal shades, standing vertically	colour	late 50s - early 60s
Midnight Star (in gold letters)	Black hollow-ware, white flatware, gilt edges and star motifs		mid-late 1950s
Morning Star	As midnight star, but with sky blue hollow-ware		mid-late 1950s
?	flatware has black polka dots scattered over a white ground; hollow-ware has white dots on black. Gilding to rims of plates and cups.		2nd half 1950s
?	red hollow-ware, flatware with red and black scattered polka dots interleaved with wavy red and black bands		late 50s - early 60s
Symphony in Pink	Abstract pattern with Pink blobs and black and pale blue lines and crosses. Backstamp has musical notes.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
?	maroon hollow-ware, flatware white, with black and maroon wavy lines crossing each other at right angles to form a weave pattern		2nd half 1950s
Horticulture and Food
?	small cameos of potted succulent plants	colour	2nd half 1950s
Pimpernel	Large, stylised scarlet pimpernel flower with bright red petals and green foliage.	colour	c. early 1970s
?	bamboo twigs with yellow stems, red leaves and black leaves	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Pictures of fruit around the border (lemons, cherries, etc.)	colour	unknown
Children's
Bill and Ben(?)	terracotta flower pots with house plants, red jug and green plate with cut grapefruit; these patterns superimposed on grey sketches of fruit	colour	2nd half 1950s
Pixie ware backstamp with pink-clad toddler	kids in pink and blue costumes with pointy ears	colour	2nd half 1950s
Olden times
?	Man in green jacket wheeling a barrow of fruit, with a red and black striped awning; other cameos of trees with metal protectors round trunks, and a park railing stretching into the distance	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	horse moving left to right with riders in jodhpurs and riding hats, in a public park with a carousel or bandstand (?) in the background	b/w	2nd half 1950s
Possibly called Gay nineties?	Main picture shows Victorian couple on bicycles; smaller cameo shows rider on horse with companions	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	woman with parasol walks her poodle on a lead from left to right in front of the façade of a café; other figures standing or seated at the café table outside.	b/w	2nd half 1950s
?	Flatware with elaborate embossed floral border and scalloped edge. Young man in 18th Century knee breeches, playing a guitar to a pretty young woman in a pink bustled dress, both under a tree with pink, blue and green blobs for the foliage	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	young couple in an orchard, ladder against one tree, he in green shirt, black cowboy hat, yellow necktie; she in pink dress, white apron and yellow blouse, holding a basket and picking fruit; a full basket on the ground.	Colour	2nd half 1950s
Carousel backstamp with a picture of a carousel	Cameos from a fairground show a big wheel, a carousel, woman dancing on stage, swings, hot dog stall, etc.	colour	2nd half of 1950s
Rural
Country Life in words only, no pictorial stamp	Boy with hat on a river bank, fishing, and with a basket shaped pot beside him. Another cameo shows a horse, rider and fox hounds; a small cameo with a man shooting birds is also seen.	colour	2nd half 1950s
Ride Home	Landscape with farmer leading 2 horses pulling a large hayrick on a wagon	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Two geese or swans flying right to left over a lake with fruiting bulrushes	colour	2nd half of 1950s
?	A flock of geese flying across from right to left, a patch of blue sky above and a watery landscape below	colour	2nd half of 1950s
?	Farmyard scene: a path leading to a barn with two sloping pink roofs, fowl and a dog on the path, a man on a horse, two small haystacks to the left of the barn, trees behind, birds flying over	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Haystack in the middle foreground, behind which is a grey-roofed barn full of grain or straw, a small pink-rooved outhouse on the left, and a tree in the foreground	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Farmyard scene, with water pump and drinking trough to the left, horses to the right, and a farmhouse and outbuildings in the middle distance	b/w	2nd half 1950s
Stag backstamp has a black silhouetted stag with antlers, in front of a grey tree with black and red fruits	Shows a black silhouette of a prancing, antlered stag, a couple of red or green maple-like leaves and a sprig of twigs with red flowers or leaves	colour	2nd half 1950s
?	Red stag with antlers, beside a black conifer, black or grey conifers also in the background; birds flying over	colour	2nd half 1950s
Westport	Ducks flying left to right over marshy ground	colour	2nd half 1950s