Edward Asbury & Co 




 

Location and period of operation:

E Asbury & Co

Longton

1875

1925

 

China manufacturer at the Prince of Wales Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

  • Edward Asbury had previously been in business with Titus Hammersley at the Prince of Wales Works, after the death of Hammersley in 1875 the business was continued by Edward Asbury. 

  • Incorporated as a Limited Company in 1905 [National Archives] 

  • The business was voluntarily wound up in May 1925 

 

Formerly: Hammersley & Asbury

 

 


Edward Asbury & Co
Manufacturer of 
China Tea & Breakfast Services,
Dessert Sets, Toilet Trinkets, &c, &c 
Prince of Wales Works, Longton, Staffordshire

 The Pottery Gazette, American and Canadian Edition, January 1st 1880

 

 


Edward Asbury & Co Ltd

The 'Established 1863' refers to the date that the works were established and 
not the date that Edward Asbury & Co was started

from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

 

 


Sutherland Road
Aspbury, (sic) E., and Co., Ltd.,
china manufacturers

note the misspelling of Asbury 

 

 

The London Gazette
12 May 1925 


Notice of the voluntary winding up order 

 

 


blue & white transferware cup and saucer with gilt edging
pattern: Old Benares  

 


blue & white transferware trio

 



covered serving  dish


E A & Co 

with an impressed mark and a manufacturing date of 1881

 



plates in the Dragon pattern 
the pattern was extensivly used on tea and dinner ware and also appears in blue 

the registration number is 410097 which
shows the pattern was registered in 1903



child's bowl 'Market Day' 

 

 

 
Asbury crested souvenir ware 

small novelty crested ware figures were produced for sale at the seaside and other tourist areas 

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

Mark of Asbury & Co and their predecessors incorporate the Prince of Wales feathers  

"These works, in Sutherland Road, were established by Benjamin Shirley of Bangor, Wales, on the day of the marriage of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales - 10th March 1863 - and were, in honour of that event, named the Prince of Wales's Works" 

 

A & Co

 

E A & Co

 

ASBURY
LONGTON

 

 


E A & Co

 

  
E A & Co

impressed mark with a 
manufacturing date of 1881

 

DRAGON is 
the pattern name

OLD BENARES is 
the pattern name

BOURNEMOUTH is 
the pattern name

Mark used on crested 
souvenir ware 

variations of the mark "Asbury Longton"
often with the words TRADE MARK and the pattern name

  

 


Prince of Wales Pottery, Sutherland Road, Longton

 

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