Earthenware manufacturer at Navigation Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

• The name New Wharf was derived from the Wharf that was built on the nearby Burslem Branch of the Trent & Mersey canal at that time.

• In 1877 Thomas Francis Wood, along with his brother William, purchased for £5075 a site in Navigation Road, which they called New Wharf Pottery, and which they had probably been tenants or since 1875. 

• The partners were Absalom Wood and two of his sons Thomas Francis and William, together with Ebenezer Swann. 

• Absalom Wood and Thomas Francis Wood also owned Wood & Son

• In December 1882 Ebenezer Swann left the business. 

• In 1894 the works were absorbed into the larger Wood & Son business. 

this is in the aesthetic style 

c.1878-91

the "B" after the initials is for the town of BURSLEM

 
mug in the YEDDO pattern

the pattern is in the aesthetic style 
- the mug is the same shape used for the Japonais pattern shown above

Yeddo is a Romanised form of Edo ("bay-entrance" or "estuary"), the former name of Tokyo. Japan. A number of British pottery companies used Yeddo as a pattern name.

New Wharf Pottery Co
Burslem

The registration diamond shows that the pattern/design was registered on the 11th October 1882

The registration was actually to Wood & Son of the Trent Pottery, Burslem, Staffordshire - Wood & Son were effectively the parent company of New Wharf Pottery Co

c.1878-91

N W P Co
B

c.1878-91

the "B" under the initials is for the town of BURSLEM

"TENNYSON" is the pattern name

the registration number 709 shows that the 
pattern was first registered in 1884.

the impressed 7 / 86 is the month/year of manufacture - July 1886