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B Jones & Sons (Ltd) |
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Location and period of operation:
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A.
B. Jones & Sons |
Longton |
1900 |
1971 |
China and Earthenware manufacturers at the Grafton Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Alfred Bailey Jones began as pottery decorator and seller in 1876. (probably at the Eagle Works, Station Square, Longton).
A B Jones was the mayor of Longton in 1905-6
The Grafton Works was built in 1900 in Malborough Road (off Wood Street) in Longton.
Alfred Bailey Jones was joined in business by his two sons A. B. Jones and W. B. Jones.
In April 1907 Edith Jones, second daughter of Alderman A.B. Jones married Harold John Plant of R H & S L Plant. Pottery Gazette, May 1907.
The father died in 1940 and the business continued under the management of A. B. Jones (Jnr) until his death in 1956,
his son, Alfred Leslie Jones the managed the business.In 1966 the business was bought by Crown House Glass Ltd. and continued to trade under the A. B. Jones & Sons name.
Crown House Tableware also owned Dema glass, Denby, Edinburgh Crystal & Thomas Webb Crystal.
In 1971 the business was sold to the New Zealand based Crown Lynn Potteries Ltd. and renamed Crown Lynn Ceramics (UK) Ltd.
subsequently: Crown Lynn Ceramics (UK) Ltd.
Initials and marks used on ware for identification:
Grafton China
Royal Grafton China
Grafton was
a trade name
used by A B Jones
A B J & S
A B J & SONS
A B JONES & SONS
click below for more information on A B Jones ware and marks:-
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on the Grafton Works
Crested China
| Crested china collecting
became a craze in Victorian and Edwardian times when day trippers bought
small porcelain ornaments decorated with the coat of arms of the
locality to take home as a souvenir.
A B Jones made this type of ware:
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examples of crests from pattern book for A B Jones
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