sugar bowl leonard street pottery

could you please give me any information that you may have on the following item?


possible sugar bowl?

top half green with ornate gold pattern
gold pattern in middle
bottom half in white
one pink rose inside

base:-
gold crown
leonard st pottery
fine
bone china
burslem
warranted
22kt. gold
princess

many thanks hilary and anne

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Reply by Peter (admin)

Hi Hilary and Anne

Nice query and detailed description from Hilary and Anne. Thanks.

Ok. The Leonard Street Pottery wins the prize as the most obscure china manufacturer in the whole of Stoke-on-Trent, even perhaps all of England.

Yours is the second query I have ever had and there is no reference to this maker anywhere in my reference books or online (except two items shown on Replacements.com and one of those is broken!?

If anyone knows about this maker, please shout!

My other query about the The Leonard Street Pottery is here:

The Leonard Street Pottery

As a mere enthusiast, not an expert antiquarian appraiser, I can normally give you lots of helpful pointers, but not in this case.

Happy hunting. Let us know what you find out.

Peter (admin)

p.s. The following page is a 'must see' if you are researching fine china - for value and identification:-

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Dear Visitor,

Well I think you have put us one step closer to solving two old mysteries which have been bugging this site for years.

Turns out to be a connection!

We have been flummoxed by this Leonard Street Pottery as well as a later company who were using the Royal Stanley pottery mark for bone china.

Colclough owned the Royal Stanley mark and in the early part of the 20th Century used it for their non-bone china production - especially their Moorcroft look-a-like vases. A different company called Stanley China (Amisons, established 1878) made very nice bone china at the same period. Confused? Just follow this Royal Stanley thread which explains all.

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Colclough was amalgamated into the giant Pearsons Ridgway Group in the 1950's who had gone about buying many of the old well known but ailing Victorian firms (see this article on Ridgway / Royal Vale).

This meant that the Allied Potteries as they were known at that time (later to become known as the Royal Doulton Group) owned the Royal Stanley name.

In some towns important retailers negotiated exclusivity on certain names, so that a second retailer in the town could not be sold that brand name.

My guess is that Allied Potteries/Ridgways/Doulton used their many different labels to keep retailers happy about their exclusivity arrangements. So the same pattern could be sold with a different label on it for the purposes of marketing. In other words the maker was the Allied Potteries/Ridgways/Doulton group and the label was whatever was covenient.

So its not about the maker - it becomes about what brand the owners decide to stick on something - very much the business model in todays UK market.

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The same large company had also absorbed Amisons (Stanley Bone China) and so could use the 1878 date (some records say 1875 was the founding date of Amisons).

Possible Solution No. 3

It was in fact the owners of the Amisons (closed c. 1962) who used these Leonard Street and Royal Stanley marks.

You pays yer money and takes yer choice!

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