F.J.J.




 

Location and period of operation:

F.J.J.

      

 

Earthenware manufacturer - identity uncertain

  • Ware with the pattern name 'MILGROVE' in the IMARI style is found with the initials F. J. J.

  • Often a letter 'L' appears under the initials F.J.J. - this almost certainly stand for the town of LONGTON - one of the Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire Pottery towns. 

  • Associated with the pattern Milgrove is the registration number 631484 - this gives a pattern registration date of 1914 

  • Wood & Sons produced ware in a pattern which was idential to that by F.J.J. - with the same registration number 631484 - but Wood used the pattern name 'MILLWOOD' 

  • The working hypothesis is that the company F.J.J. closed and Wood & Sons aquired the rights to the pattern.  

 


plates in the MILGROVE pattern

the pattern is in the IMARI style


MILGROVE 
F J J
L
Rd No 631484

the 'L' under the initials FJJ almost certainly
stand for the town of LONGTON

the registration number gives a pattern registration date of 1914 




trio in the MILGROVE pattern


MILGROVE 
English Make
Rd No 631484

the same pattern name and registration number but without the initials FJJ

 

 


plates in the MILLWOOD pattern

the MILGROVE pattern by FJJ and the
MILLWOOD pattern by Wood & Sons are identical - with the same registration number 

 


MILLWOOD
Semi-Porcelain
Wood & Sons
England 


MILLWOOD
Semi-Porcelain
Wood & Sons
England 
Rd No 631484

the mark appears with and without the registration number

 

 


Hand Painted Ware 
F. J. J.
L
MILGROVE 

although this has the same pattern name MILGROVE it is not 
the same IMARI style 

Questions / comments / contributions?  Steve Birks