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Thomas Forester

Thomas Forester

Advertisement showing typical low-priced
majolica ware of the period

Reproduced from the Pottery Gazette, 1882

 

Thomas Forester started business at a small works in the High Street, Longton, he took additional premises in Church Street. These he demolished and built the Phoenix works  which he completed in 1879... In the beginning of 1883 he took his sons into partnership. 


Messrs. Thomas Foster and Sons Ltd,
Manufacturers of Majolica, Art Ware and Numerous Novelties,
Phoenix Works, Longton


Phoenix Works

Phoenix Works

From "A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal". Page 87

 

 


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