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Marks of North Staffordshire potters

   

 

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if you recognise any of the manufacturers then please email me: Steve Birks 

 

 


L. D. ??

 

Fragment found (2024) in the bottom of a disused well in Wellington New Zealand.

Typical scroll mark with the wording 
'Warranted Staffordshire

The manufacturer is unknown

 

 


Forster

mark in a circle - perhaps with a bee

mark found on an egg box with 
hand painted flowers, leaves and birds
gilding to the edges

 


B P c
Burslem
England

mark in a shield with a Kangaroo
on top

mark found on a vase with 
hand painted flowers 

 





B B & R
Made in England


Ironstone
Made in England

Unicorn and Lion 
VR in a shield 

mark found on ware almost certainly 
produced in the late 20th, early 21st century


Stone China
N. P.

mark on a willow pattern dish

 





 
Trade Mark - with Lion & Sun 


C.B. & G.K.
Stoke-on-Trent

this mark appears to be that of a company
who decorated blanks supplied by Pottery companies

 



T & Co
DAISY

Daisy will be the pattern name 



BMB
Lane End

this mark, found on a Willow pattern platter, is
of an unknown manufacturer, it could be from
a short lived partnership with Beardmore & Birks



Dalmara Ware
Stoke-on-Trent



C P Co Ltd
Burslem
England



S P C
T

P S C
T

The 'T' at the bottom may stand for TUNSTALL
(one of the North Staffordshire pottery towns)

Asiatic Pheasants pattern

 


 


 



 

if you recognise the manufacturer of any of these marks then please email me: Steve Birks 

 


 

 
Warranted
Opaque China
R & D

pre-1837 Royal Arms with the additional centre shield

mark on a willow pattern plate and platter 

 


 

  

B H & P S
E

H & P in a shield with crown above
B S outside the shield
E underneath

SWALLOW is the pattern name

 


 

if you recognise the manufacturer of any of these marks then please email me: Steve Birks 

 


Solved.... 

 



Royal Ironstone China
S M 

This copy of the British Royal Arms was used by Petrus Regout
- a Dutch industrialist who used this style of marks on some of his ware to give the impression that it was English



a crown overtop of a Stafford knot

mark used by Petrus Regout - a Dutch potter 
(using the Stafford Knot on some ware)

identification solved by: Frans van Kuijen 



English
Best Bone China

mark of a globe with an angel holding a 
pennant with the St. George's Cross

early mark of H.M. Williamson & Sons 



W E & Co
Hanley

mark of Whittaker Edge & Co



228
H
 
[embossed mark of urn] 
ENGLAND

The registration number 209222 dates to 1893

the manufacturer was William Ault of Swadlincote near Burton-on-Trent
they were in operation from 1887 to 1923
 



Chinese
Temple
E.C. & T.

mark of: Everard, Colclough & Townsend

 



asiatic pheasants
G & J. H. 

mark of: George & John Hobson

identification solved by: Andrew Pye (see his web sites



RCA
mark on a willow pattern plate and platter 

Likely to be Read, Clementson, Anderson

 



ENGLAND
CHELTENHAM
FB

Cheltenham is the pattern name

mark of Frederick Booth
Broad Street, Bradford, Yorkshire
- operated around 1881

 


 

  
R & P S
R P & S

WW in crossed axes

this is the mark of Robert Pringle & Sons
at the Wilderness Works

they were wholesale jewellers, silversmiths & watch importers
at sometime they distributed earthenware 
- the actual manufacturer of the earthenware is unknown