L A Birks & Co

Location and period of operation:

China and earthenware manufacturer at the Vine Pottery, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent. 

• The Vine Pottery was founded in 1895 by Lawrence Arthur Birks and Charles Frederick Goodfellow; Adolphus J. Rawlins was as a partner (the '& Co.')

• Lawrence Arthur Birks (b.1857 - d.1935) worked 22 years for Minton, and was apprenticed to the great pâte-sur-pâte artist Louis Marc Emmanuel Solon. 

• Goodfellow retired in 1898. After Goodfellow's retirement the company became Birks, Rawlins & Co. in 1900. 

Subsequently: Birks, Rawlins & Co.

Subsequently: Birks, Rawlins & Co.

Plate in the TITAN pattern - by L A Birks & Co

Initials and marks used on ware for identification:

BIRKS

B & CO

various marks incorporated
a vine leaf with a bunch of grapes 

1896-1900 

BIRKS

'TITAN' was the pattern name 

1896-1900 

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Questions, comments, contributions? email: Steve Birks