C Hobson & Son

Location and period of operation:

Charles Hobson (& Sons) were earthenware manufacturers at the Albert Street Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

• Charles Hobson had been a partner in the pottery firm 'Morgan, Wood & Co.', in 1885 he left the partnership
  and bought the Albert Street Pottery from the short lived 'Dix & Tundley' who had gone out of business the year before.

• It was about 1873 that one of his sons  joined the business and '& Son' was added to the name. 

 

Subsequently: G & J Hobson  

cup and saucer by Charles Hobson in the Ningpo pattern 

hand coloured plate in the Ningpo pattern 

Plate in the Imari style
pattern name is Chusan 

cheese cover by Charles Hobson in the Belus pattern 

Initials and marks used on ware for identification:

C H

C H & S
the '& S' was added c.1873  

CHARLES HOBSON
the full name in a garter-shaped mark
was used - ofter with the pattern 
name in the middle 

C H

1865-73

NINGPO is the pattern name

HOBSON
impressed mark

CHUSAN is the pattern name 

Charles Hobson
operated from the
Albert Street Pottery

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