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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10327298, member: 91417&quot;][ATTACH=full]519257[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519257[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519260[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519262[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519263[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519264[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519264[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519257[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519260[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519262[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519263[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519264[/ATTACH] Can someone help me identify more fully what I believe is a 19th century Ironstone Staffordshire teapot (or coffeepot ?) with an embossed maple leaf design.&nbsp; The backstamp is the British Royal Arms with quartered shield, which Godden (<i>Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks</i>, 1991 ed.) says was used after 1837 (p. 552). Many British potteries &amp; Staffordshire potteries used this mark, but usually with their names.&nbsp; This has no name.&nbsp; Godden mentions two potteries that sometimes did not include their name: S. Alcock &amp; Co. &amp; G.L. Ashworth &amp; Bros (p. 756).&nbsp; The Alcock version (p. 28, mark 78,) does not resemble the stamp on my pot.&nbsp; The Ashworth version (p.38, mark 146) is much closer but varies in the design directly above the DIEU ET MON DROIT scroll. The frontal face of the lion appears to differ although the illustration is so small that size may be a factor.&nbsp; Mark 146 is dated from 1862, presumably until c.1880 when the next mark begins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found only one example of the embossed maple leaf pattern &amp; this type of handle: an ebay seller who seems to know as little as (or less than) I do (<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/255274628662" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/255274628662" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/255274628662</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Any ideas for identifying it?&nbsp; Would I be safe to say it is “possibly G.L. Ashworth &amp; Bros, c. 1862-1880”?&nbsp; Any ideas to the value?&nbsp; 19th century English Ironstone seems to sell for high prices in good shape, but this has a large crack and a missing lid.&nbsp; Is the maple pattern or twisted handle unusual in 19th century Ironstone?</p><p><br /></p><p>An easier question:&nbsp; Is there an official name for this type of handle made of two lengths of clay coiled around each other?&nbsp; I have been calling it a “twisted handle.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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