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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9451046, member: 649"]Do you happen to be the same Robert who inquired about <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/does-anyone-know-this-1930s-wedgwood-pattern.78509/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/does-anyone-know-this-1930s-wedgwood-pattern.78509/">THIS</a> Wedgwood set?</p><p><br /></p><p>What I said in that other inquiry:</p><p>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....</p><p>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>:</p><p>"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". "</p><p>"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."</p><p>"In 1965 the company Wedgwood & Co. was sold to Semart Importing Co. based in New Jersey, USA and refloated as Enoch Wedgwood (Tunstall) Ltd."</p><p><br /></p><p>Your unicorn mark is older that the mark in that other post.... yours is 1908+.</p><p>From thepotteries.org:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]439665[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry if I'm telling you stuff that you already know. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Were you, too, looking for a pattern name? Many patterns didn't have names.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9451046, member: 649"]Do you happen to be the same Robert who inquired about [URL='https://www.antiquers.com/threads/does-anyone-know-this-1930s-wedgwood-pattern.78509/']THIS[/URL] Wedgwood set? What I said in that other inquiry: 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.... From [URL='http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1061.htm#and_Co']thepotteries.org[/URL]: "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." Your unicorn mark is older that the mark in that other post.... yours is 1908+. From thepotteries.org: [ATTACH=full]439665[/ATTACH] Sorry if I'm telling you stuff that you already know. :shy: Were you, too, looking for a pattern name? Many patterns didn't have names.[/QUOTE]
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