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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 2391819, member: 7360&quot;]Thanks for all your input everyone, extremely helpful!&nbsp; Bloey - I was probably wrong to call this faience, there was just something about the chipping to the glaze on the shoulders which made me think that, although I can&#039;t explain why.&nbsp; I&#039;m really no good at porcelain types, soft paste, hard paste, creamware, pearlware . . .&nbsp; It would be enormously helpful to be able to tell them all apart, I suppose I will gradually gain expertise as I gather properly identified pieces, but it&#039;s a slow process!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>say_it_slowly - Wow, that canister in the picture looks almost identical, it must be the same factory!&nbsp; Does that mean that it could be English after all?&nbsp; I had it so fixed in my mind that it was French, or maybe German, and I haven&#039;t found anything English very like it, but I&#039;ve been looking for faience, and also at the standard porcelain factories like Lowestoft, New Hall etc.&nbsp; It did look a little bit like a Lowestoft one, but I&#039;m always hoping to find a bit of Lowestoft!&nbsp; I think Plymouth would be wonderful but alas unlikely, still, miracles can happen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad you are treasuring (or at least preserving) that batterd Wedgwood tea caddy, I hate to throw old ceramics away even when cracked, and the rural scene is very evocative of a vanished past.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never heard of the Heath factory - well, there&#039;s a lot I&#039;ve never heard of - so I will research that now.&nbsp; I&#039;ve just looked for the &quot;Painted in Blue&quot; book on Amazon, it&#039;s listed there but no copies available, I&#039;ll have to keep trying.&nbsp; It would be very helpful if it gives a possible maker for the different canisters pictured, they are very varied and attractive.&nbsp; I had also not thought that the bold V shape might be just a workman&#039;s mark.&nbsp; No wonder Varages didn&#039;t reply, they must have thought I was mad!</p><p><br /></p><p>So much helpful input after over a year of fruitless research!&nbsp; That just goes to show that despite many ceramic books and google searches, a bit of tunnel vision and the wrong search terms will mean a waste of time.&nbsp; I still have several other pieces from the same job lot which are unidentified, I must take some photos and seek help on them also.</p><p><br /></p><p>With immense gratitude to all![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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