W T H Smith & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

W T H Smith & Co

Longport

July 1898

1905

 

Manufacturer of earthenware and tiles at the Cable Pottery, Longport, near Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

  • William Thomas Hulme Smith had previously been in partnership as Smith, Ford and Jones and then as Smith & Ford. On the 30th June 1898 this latter partnership was dissolved - Samuel Ford continued at the Lincoln Pottery as Samuel Ford & Co and Smith moved to the Cable Pottery as W T H Smith & Co.

 

 

 

  
small (150mm) butter dish in the Ivanhoe pattern

 

 


glazed tile attributed  to W T H Smith & Co

 

 

 

Marks used on the ware for identification:

 


W.T.H. Smith & Co
Longport
England

The registration number  
shows that the pattern was registered in 1899

 


W.T.H. Smith & Co
Longport
England

 

 

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