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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 10675164, member: 649&quot;]<img src="https://forums.vintagefashionguild.org/smilies/wow22.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Lovely!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk/other.html#coalport" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk/other.html#coalport" rel="nofollow">Apparently</a>, Coalport (along with several other manufacturers) often used a fractional pattern numbering system. &quot;[Their] fractional numbering, however, never has more than three figures below the line, <i>is usually in gilt</i>, and is often written at right angles to the foot rim.&quot; Other companies&#039; fractional numbering was often in other colours and/or contained more digits. The fractional number 4/955 is the pattern, there likely is no other &quot;name&quot; for it. </p><p>BTW, the company name was actually &quot;John Rose &amp; Co&quot; from its founding in 1785 until 1880. It was located in Coalport, Shropshire and in 1880 it became the Coalport China Company. Their ware was typically unmarked prior to 1820.</p><p><a href="https://www.gentlerattleofchina.com/product-page/english-teapot-set-white-fluted-with-gilt-pattern-ca-1870?srsltid=AfmBOop0PCCrtXd84YUz0PndbuybWdTzMR-ZNEEL1KiQUbBUiYOZODEW" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gentlerattleofchina.com/product-page/english-teapot-set-white-fluted-with-gilt-pattern-ca-1870?srsltid=AfmBOop0PCCrtXd84YUz0PndbuybWdTzMR-ZNEEL1KiQUbBUiYOZODEW" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> seller with pieces in your pattern thinks 1870s and acknowledges it may be Coalport but admits the attribution is uncertain. The ring-shaped handles on the cups do make me think an earlier date than 1870s, however.</p><p>If you can get your hands on the books (possibly through your library?) Berthoud&#039;s <i>A Compendium of British Cups</i> or Messenger&#039;s <i>Coalport, 1795-1926</i>, you may find more info than is available on the internet. Unfortunately, I have neither book.</p><p>I would think that the &quot;Ironbridge Antique Centre&quot; could be trusted to correctly identify old china/porcelain from their own area (such as Coalport). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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