Lockett, Baguley & Cooper

1855

May 1861

Lockett & Cooper

May 1861

Jan 1863

George Baguley

May 1861

1867

Thomas Cooper

Jan 1863

1867

Note that the address of the Victoria Works is variously referred to as Shelton and Hanley. These are the same location - Hanley and Shelton are contiguous areas and in 1857 were incorporated as the Borough of Hanley.

Baguley as an independent manufacturer:

• From c.1850-1855 George Baguley was operating on his own account. He operated at a small manufactory in Upper Hanley - it was here that he produced his parian statue of the Duke of Wellington. 

• On the 27th March 1854 and 15th April 1854 he registered two designs under the Ornamental Design Act 1842. 

• Around October 1854 he moved to a "new china manufactory near Shelton Church" (The Staffordshire Advertiser -21 Oct 1854). The Upper Hanley manufactory was advertised to be let in February 1855. 

The various partnerships of Lockett, Baguley & Cooper:

• In 1855 Baguley was joined by George Lockett and Thomas Cooper. The business became Lockett, Baguley & Cooper.

• This partnership registered three designs on the 26th February 1855, 26th May 1859 and 19th May 1860 under the Ornamental Design Act 1842. 

• In May 1861 George Baguley left the partnership which continued as Lockett & Cooper until January 1863. 

• Lockett & Cooper registered two designs on the 4th July 1861 and 20th December 1861 under the Ornamental Design Act 1842.

• In January 1863 the Lockett & Cooper partnership was dissolved and the business carried on by Thomas Cooper. 

• The 1865 and 1867 Keates directories noted the firm as being in the hands of executors.  

• After George Baguley left the partnership of Lockett, Baguley & Cooper he continued on his own account at the Victoria Works.

• In 1862 he was involved in patenting a technical innovation associated with the rapidly developing telegraph industry, alongside an established glass manufacturer from Sunderland. (patent 2734). 

• In July 1867 George Baguley was adjudged bankrupt. A notice in The London Gazette records that a petition for adjudication had been filed on 5 July 1867. On 4 November, Baguley applied for his discharge, which was granted the same day, subject to appeal.

• Although the Potteries' Directory for 1868 still listed "Baguley, George, Broad Street, Hanley—China," this does not necessarily establish that he was still manufacturing in 1868. The directory may have been compiled before the bankruptcy or its information may simply not have been updated following the failure of the business.

George Baguley advert - 1852 
Slater directory 

Parian Models and Classical Sculpture
by George Baguley, High Street, Hanley, Staffordshire
Parian and Stone Jugs, Vases, &c., in White or Tinted Bodies, unique in design and quality, for the Home or Foreign markets, as Ice, Molasses or Hot Water Jugs, With Britannia Metal Covers, &c. 

G. Baguley,
(Late Lockett, Baguley, and Coooper)
Manufacturer of Porcelain in all its Branches,
Victoria Works, Hanley, Staffordshire. 

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, George Lockett, George Baguley, and Thomas Cooper, carrying on business at Shelton, in the borough of Hanley, in the county of Stafford, as China and Earthenware Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Lockett, Baguley, and Cooper, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the said George Baguley.—As witness our hands this 30th day of May, 1861.

notice of the dissolution of the partnership of Lockett, Baguley, and Cooper ,
George Baguley left the partnership

2734. To George Baguley, of Hanley, in the county of Stafford, China Manufacturer; and Henry Greener, of Sunderland, in the county of Durham, Flint Glass Manufacturer, for the invention of “an improved construction of insulator, for telegraph wires.”

notice of an award of a patent for an improved insulator
 

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, George Lockett and Thomas Cooper, carrying on business at Shelton, in the borough of Hanley, in the county of Stafford, as China and Earthenware Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Lockett & Cooper, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent ; and that the said business will in future be carried on by the said Thomas Cooper, by whom all debts due and owing to or from the said partnership firm will be received and paid.—As witness our hands this 10th day of January, 1863.

Thos. Cooper.
Geo. Lockett.

Design registered on 27 March 1854 by George Baguley

Design registered on 19 May 1860 by Lockett, Baguley & Cooper

relief moulded jug with putti and and hanging fruit swags

also manufactured with hand coloured panels and gilt highlights

Lockett, Baguley & Cooper, Shelton – porcelain dessert plate

The elaborately moulded and pierced Rococo rim surrounds a hand-painted landscape panel, with green ground, gilt and painted decoration.

hand painted pattern number 754 

the registration diamond shows that the design of the rim was registered by Lockett, Baguley & Cooper on the 26th February 1855.  

Small Parian ware figures and busts of famous individuals and porcelain memorial ware was produced by a number of manufacturers and proved to be popular as commemorative ware.

Many of these items were manufactured specifically to commemorate major national events, royal jubilees, or the deaths of prominent figures. For example, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, Parian ware figures were widely sold as premium souvenirs for visitors to take home.

George Baguley produced this parian ware statue of the Duke of Wellington at his "small manufactory" in Upper Hanley

Parian Ware bust of Garibaldi

height: 23cm (9in)

marked "Published by Lockett Baguley & Cooper"

image source: WorthPoint database

Glazed porcelain Crimean War 
memorial obelisk with gilt decoration

"To the Fallen Brave"
 the panels on the base are marked with the names of four principal Crimean battles - Sebastopol, Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman

The interior is marked: 
 "Published by Lockett Baguley & Cooper
Shelton Staffs June 25th 1856"

Height: 22.5cm (8.75in)

image source: The Armoury of St James's

lidded serving dish in the Cable pattern 

Cable is a known pattern produced by Pinder, Bourne & Co (1862-82)  - examples found in Australia and New Zealand demonstrate its distribution in overseas markets.

Ware in the cable pattern with marks carrying the initials "L B & C" have been found - these have tentatively been attributed to Lockett, Baguley & Cooper - the only known Stoke-on-Trent pottery manufacturer with these initials. 

L B & C 

this digitally enhanced image clearly shows the initials L B & C