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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10673052, member: 91417&quot;]I think this is the oldest item from my mother’s Coalport collection, but I wondered if someone can confirm the <b>date</b> (or disagree with it), name the <b>pattern</b>, and/or offer any other information. My mother collected Coalport when my father was transferred to the tiny town of Horsehay, Shropshire, where they lived in 1970.&nbsp; They made numerous friends and loved it. Years after they died, I found this cup &amp; saucer.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the bottom of the teacup is a paper label with handwritten <b>“Coalport c 1845”</b> with a small circle enclosing a vertical line. On the saucer is a label printed “I<b>ronbridge Antique Centre / Ironbridge 3784</b>” which I assume tells where my mother purchased it.&nbsp; Handwritten in ink are the numbers 29 (upper left), 214 (upper right), and T2 (lower right). In the center is <b>“Coalport- [two illegible words or abbreviations: “brit Ser”?] c1845 £12”</b>.&nbsp; So, I know what she paid.&nbsp; (I think a £ was worth about $2.40 back then.)&nbsp; A second, smaller label on the saucer reads “<b>Coalport c.1845 225</b> [or 2.25].”&nbsp; Written in <b>gold china paint</b> on the bottom of the saucer (just above the label) are the numbers <b>“4” above “955”. </b></p><p><br /></p><p>I hesitate to remove the labels because they provide my only documentation, and I doubted a reputable antique seller would cover any original marks with paper labels.&nbsp; Godden said, “The earliest Coalport porcelain are mostly unmarked,” but I think he is referring to 1795 into the early 19th century. (Geoffrey A. Godden, <i>Encylcopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, </i>London: Barrie &amp; Jenkins, 1964, rev. ed. 1991, p. 155.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I have questions.&nbsp; How was the cup &amp; saucer identified as <b>Coalport</b> and dated?&nbsp; I assume from the pattern, but where is this <b>pattern</b> identified?&nbsp; Does anyone know any Coalport <b>bibliography</b> that would help?&nbsp; (Geoffrey Godden, <i>Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains,</i> New York:&nbsp; Praeger, 1970, is in a local library but has no info on any of my pieces.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone know the pattern?&nbsp; Any idea what the numbers on the plate (4, 955) mean? I assume the random numbers on the labels might be inventory numbers.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]533388[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533391[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533392[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533393[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533395[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533396[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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