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Message:: [QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9450152, member: 649"]Sorry, I don't know the name of the pattern, though maybe someone else will. Many patterns did not have names. I will point out that your Wedgwood & Co earthenware dishes are NOT by Josiah Wedgwood, the famous and well-respected potter. Yours are by Enoch Wedgwood's pottery, he was a distant cousin of Josiah.Your mark was used from 1936 through (potentially) 1965. Of note is that in 1965, Enoch's name was added to their pottery's name/marks in order to avoid confusion with Josiah's pottery.Why do you associate the 1930s with your dishes, is there family provenance? I've always associated the colored unicorn triangle mark with the 1950s (the latter part of the mark's use), but I could be wrong and I haven't yet found documentation supporting that thought.From <a href="http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1061.htm#and_Co" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1061.htm#and_Co" rel="nofollow">thepotteries.org</a>:"The ware of Wegwood & Co are sometimes confused with those of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. However the inclusion of "& Co" or "& Co Ltd" in the name always differentiates between the two companies as Josiah Wedgwood never used "& Co". ""Messrs. Wedgwood & Co. became a limited company in 1900 and continued to use this old title until 1965, when the new style Enoch Wedgwood (Tunstall) Ltd. was adopted to avoid the confusion which often arose between the old title (and marks) and that of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd.""In 1965 the company Wedgwood & Co. was sold to Semart Importing Co. based in New Jersey, USA and refloated as Enoch Wedgwood (Tunstall) Ltd. " [ATTACH=full]439588[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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