Swinnertons Royal Wessex China Ware - Antique Bone China Query

by Donna Bird
(New Zealand)

Swinnertons Royal Wessex China Ware - Antique Bone China Query - ..continued from previous entry on Crown Lynn:- Donna Bird continues.... I wonder this is the wedding gift to Masie as it seems the odd one out the back stamp says Royal Wessex 'white ironstone' made in England by Swinnertons. It had a sort of jenny like lamp and two gold //. If there is no such pottery company, it will be a piece of Crown Lynn scull duggery as it’s the weirdest name. I will send another email with some pages of the book.

ok chow for now

Donna.

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Reply by Peter (admin)

To:- Swinnertons Royal Wessex China Ware - Antique Bone China Query

Hi Donna

Thanks again for the historical information and all the fascinating background.

Now you have given me the name Swinnertons China Ware, I can confirm that this set might well be the odd one out because my books tell me Royal Wessex was indeed a brand name of Swinnertons China Ware.

Swinnertons of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was a company which traded in mainly earthenwares from 1906 to 1970. Apart from Swinnertons, their trade names were Hampton, Vitrion, and Royal Wessex.

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Antique Bone China query

and

Crown Lynn ware from New Zealand

Hope this helps and thanks again.

Best regards,

Peter (admin)

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