Earthenware and Ironstone manufacturers at Fenton Potteries, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

• The partners were Edward & Charles Challinor.  Charles had many other business interests and also owned a nearby 'Stilt & Spur Works' and the Glebe Colliery. 

• There was also the partnership of Challinor and Mayer at the same factory.

• From 1892 Charles continued the business as C. Challinor & Co.

"This was established in 1825, by Messrs. C. J. & G. M. Mason,.... Messrs. Mason were succeeded by Mr. Samuel Boyle, from whom the works passed into the hands of Messrs. E. & C. Challinor, formerly E. Challinor & Co. of Sandyford and Tunstall, who still carry them on. 

The goods produced are white granite, printed, sponged, and common earthenware, for the American, Australian, and other foreign and colonial markets. In these, tea, coffee, breakfast, dinner, toilet, and other services, and all the usual useful articles, are largely produced. 

The white granite, or ironstone china, is of good, hard, sound, and durable quality ; some of their most successful embossed patterns being the Ceres or Wheat, the Garland, and the Vine-leaf patterns. In jugs, Messrs. Challinor produce the Ceres or Wheat, Paris, Garland, Barberry, Lily, Missouri, Florence, Versailles, Lotus or Cora, and other shapes, both plain and embossed. 

The earthenware is of the ordinary common quality, specially designed and well adapted for the various markets to which it is sent.

The marks are the Staffordshire knot impressed in the ware, with or without the words: E & C CHALLINOR, FENTON; E & C CHALLINOR; IRONSTONE CHINA E & C CHALLINOR, within an ornamental border, surmounted by the royal arms, &c., also impressed in the ware; and the following printed on the surface : the royal arms with crown, supporters, motto, &c., and, beneath, a ribbon with IRONSTONE CHINA, E & C CHALLINOR FENTON ; the name of the pattern, as " Australia," " Gothic," "Portland," &c. within various borders, &c., and the name E & C CHALLINOR, or E & C C."

Llewellynn Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain. 1878

Wolseley is the pattern name

1885 is the year of manufacture

both the printed and impressed mark appear on this platter

 modern production with a'fake' mark

this mark is found on Willow ware which is probably modern production

The mark is poorly draw for example the lion is comically drawn, the unicorn front legs are poorly drawn and the word 'DROIT' has been strangly spaced to make the letters show between the legs 

Portland is the pattern name

Fake marks found on modern production Willow ware and ironstone jugs

The mark is poorly draw for example the lion is comically drawn, the unicorn front legs are poorly drawn and the word 'DROIT' has been strangly spaced to make the letters show between the legs