T. G. and F. Booth






 

Location and period of operation:

T. G. & F. Booth 

Tunstall

1883

1891

 

Earthenware and ironstone manufacturer at the Church (Bank) works in the High Street and at the Highgate Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent

  • The partners were the brothers Thomas Gimbert Booth and Fred Booth

  • As well as the pottery manufacturing business the brothers were Glass, China and Earthenware dealers and merchants.

  • The partnership was dissolved on 1st January 1887 and Thomas Gimbert continued on his own account as Booth's Ltd.

 

Formerly Thomas G Booth

Subsequently Booth's Ltd

 

 

London Gazette
31 December 1889 

 


Notice that the partnership between Thomas Gimbert Booth
and Frederick Booth was dissolved on 1st January 1887 


 

 


bowl in the Buckingham pattern

 


the number 19540 shows that the pattern was registered in 1884

This bowl has both the impressed mark - T.G.B - of Thomas Gimbert Booth (1876-83) and the printed mark - T.G. & F. B - of the partnership of Thomas Gimbert Booth and his brother Frederick Booth. 

The bowl must have been produced during the time of the change over when Frederick joined the business.

photos courtesy: Debbie Dowdell

 

 

 
serving platter in the Hawthorn pattern 

 

 

 

 
platter in the Richmond pattern
This pattern was registered in 1886

 

 

 


plate in the Asiatic Pheasants pattern

- Asiatic Pheasants -
Warranted Staffordshire
T. G. & F. B. 

 

 


Warranted Staffordshire
T. G. & F. B. 

this belt mark does not have the crown which is typically used on Booth ware
although predecessor Booth companies used the same mark
 

shards of pottery from the wreck of a 19th century sailing ship 
which lies in the English Channel off Dorset

photo courtesy: Iain Smith and Neil Powell (UK Exploration Project)

 

 


Chain
T. G. & F. B. 

Found on the seabed off Plymouth UK - the Chain pattern was originally produced
by the predecessor company Thomas G Booth

 

photo courtesy:  Mick Arnold

 

 

 

 

Marks & initials used on ware for identification:

T G & F B

T G & F BOOTH

 

 


T.G & F.B.

'Hawthorn' is the pattern name

 


T.G & F.B.

'Sandringham' is the pattern name
the registration date is 13 November 1883

 


T.G & F.B.

'Hawthorn' is the pattern name
the registration date is 1886

 


Semi Porcelain
T.G & F.B.
ENGLAND


Parisian Granite
T.G & F.BOOTH
ENGLAND

 

 


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Questions, comments, contributions?  Steve Birks