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W. R. & S
L
Excelsior China
Made in England

initials in a Stafford Knot 
the 'L' may stand for 'Limited' or for the town of Longton

The mark is on a crested china vase with the date 1914 and 'Flags of the Allies'

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

mark in a circle - with a bee above

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

B P Co
Burslem
England

mark in a shield with a Kangaroo
on top

mark found on a vase with 
hand painted flowers 

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

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

   
"Trade Mark" - with Lion & Sun - monogram LBG

Mark of the French firm Albert Lebacqz & Maurice Bouchart, founders of the Les Grands Établissements Céramiques pottery established in 1892 on the banks of the Scarpe River in northern France. The initials LBG stand for Lebacqz & Bouchart – Grands Établissements.

The company were especially active exporters to countires such as Belgium, England and the Americas, often using simplified monogram marks such as this for international trade. 

The inclusion of the wording “Trade Mark” was largely a marketing device intended to give the wares an English association. Some of their wares can easily be mistaken for pieces from places such as the North Staffordshire potteries.

French potteries producing for the British market often adopted marks and styles that looked reassuringly “English,” particularly in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods when English ironstone and transferware had a strong reputation internationally.

22.05.2026

Chinese Moss
A. B. G. 

Allerton, Brough & Green

Warranted
Opaque China
R & D

mark on a willow pattern plate and platter 

Robinson & Dale

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