• Formerly Thomas Furnival & Sons - Thomas Furnival senior retired in 1890 and the business was continued by his sons Thomas, Samuel and Arthur. The style of the business became Furnivals. 

• Thomas Furnival Senior died on 25th April 1895. He left all of his property, including the business, to his daughter, Sarah.

• The younger brother, Samuel Bourne Furnival took on the role of Managing Director. 

• 'LTD' added to the marks c.1895

• By the time of the 1901 census Thomas Junior, is listed as being a Retired Earthenware Manufacturer at the early age of 55. 

• Following financial difficulty in February 1913 the business was wound up. It was then acquired by the Bailey family - brothers Charles and John and their sons (who already owned The Burslem Pottery Company Co.). The name was changed to Furnivals (1913) Ltd.

• In 1967 the business was purchased by Barratts of Staffordshire. The business continued under the Furnival name.

• The take over was short lived and in December 1978 the company was closed when, it is said, that a shortage of skilled workers frustrated development plans for the factory. 

• Rights to the Furnival name and patterns was purchased by Enoch Wedwood (Tunstall) Ltd. They continued to produce ware with the Furnival backstamp into the 1970s. 

The Naples pattern has the registration number 571553 which shows that the pattern was first registered in 1910

The impressed mark reads FURNIVALS

Some Furnival ware is marked with the name of the importer or distributor 
- in this case Broquil et Desplats     

c.1895-1913

c.1905-13

Denmark is the pattern name

c.1910-13

1913+

1913+

1913+

Quail is the pattern name