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Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: ju1i3 on September 28, 2012, 07:36:20 AM

Title: trademark id please
Post by: ju1i3 on September 28, 2012, 07:36:20 AM

Does anyone recognise this trademark please? and/or the vases

thanks

Title: Re: trademark id please
Post by: Anne on September 28, 2012, 02:05:29 PM

Hi Julie, I believe this is the mark for F. & R. Pratt & Co. - see here:
http://www.potteryhistories.com/Pratthistory.html

Title: Re: trademark id please
Post by: ju1i3 on September 28, 2012, 03:30:12 PM

Thank you so much for the fast response!

It's given me a good starting point. Googling with the right name I see other pieces with the same design. Thanks.

Title: Re: trademark id please
Post by: ju1i3 on November 20, 2012, 04:32:48 PM

I notice Patricia Coccoris has identified these are being from Wardle pottery (p. 154 of her bulb vase book). Did Wardle have anything to do with Pratt? or is that just a mistake? I did look at the site you gave the link to and I don't see any mention there.
thanks

Title: Re: trademark id please
Post by: Anne on November 20, 2012, 06:27:18 PM

Hi Julie, The Wardle marks I'm aware of are shown here: http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/w/wardle.html and they are quite different from those of Pratt. However, both Wardle and Pratt were, in the early 20th century, part of the larger Cauldon Ltd. (later Cauldon Potteries  Ltd. and later still taken over by Pountney & Co. Ltd. of Bristol.)

Title: Re: trademark id please
Post by: ju1i3 on November 22, 2012, 05:10:23 AM

Thanks Anne, that's interesting. I've had another look at the picture in the book and it looks as if both the Pratt and Wardle marks were on the base. My vases only have the Pratt discobolus mark.