Plant Bros

Enoch Plant






 

Location and period of operation:

Plant Bros

Burslem [Crown Pottery]

c.1889

1898

Plant Bros

Longton [Stanley Works]

1898

1906

Enoch Plant

Burslem [Crown Pottery]

1898

1905

 

China and earthenware manufacturer at Burslem (c.1889-98) and then at Longton (c.1898-1906).

  • Around 1889 Ralph & Enoch Plant set up business at the Crown Pottery, Dalehall, Burslem operating as Plant Bros.

  • In January 1898 this partnership between Ralph & Enoch Plant was dissolved and the business of Plant Bros. moved to the Stanley Works at Longton.

  • Enoch Plant continued on his own account at the Crown Pottery until c.1905 when he bacame bankrupt. 

  • Presumably the Plant Bros. business in Longton was also bankrupt around the same time as the Stanley Works in Longton was taken over by R.H. & S.L. Plant in 1906.

 

 


Ralph and Enoch Plant

'A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)'
1893 advertising and trade journal.

 

London Gazette
7th January 1898


notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
Ralph Plant and Enoch Plant at the Crown Pottery, Burslem 

 


Bankruptcy details of Enoch Plant

Pottery Gazette 1 January 1906

 


Dinner set in the Jewel pattern 
the crown mark was used by Enoch Plant 1898-1905

Note: other manufacturers used a crown mark

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

Enoch Plant (1898-1905) used a crown mark -  Note: other manufacturers used a crown mark

The mark used by Plant Bros was a crown with a pair of wings, underneath is a Stafford knot
with appropriate initials. 

A similar mark was used by R. H. Plant & Co and R.H. & S.L. Plant. 

 


Enoch Plant (1898-1905) used a crown mark 

 

 


 PB

Plant Bros c.1889-98
PBB

Plant Bros, Burslem 
c.1889-98
PBL

Plant Bros, Longton 
c.1898-1906

 

  

 

 


Crown Pottery, 
Dalehall, Burslem

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Stanley Works, Longton

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