 Pottery Index |
 index of potters initials |
 list of Stoke-on-Trent potters |
 potters backstamps |
|
Canteen ware produced for the British Government
and Armed Forces
Also see: -
Ware supplied under the Wartime Concentration Scheme
|
Modernism or Pragmatism. British Utility Ceramics in the 1940s An article by Oliver Kent on a collection of Utility pottery found during building work on the site of the American Red Cross Club in Bristol. Made between 1943 and 1951, these wares were produced under UK Government control primarily for military use. |
 canteen ware - tureen with the Royal Cypher GR VI George VI the King of the United Kingdom |
 Dunn Bennett & Co Ltd Burslem England 1938 W |
|
The tureen shown was produced for and supplied to the British Government; it was ultimately property of the Crown/Government, hence the GR-VI Cypher. Dunn Bennett (and others) were given government contracts throughout the late 1930s and into the 1940s (WWII) and produced canteen ware - most likely for the armed services. The ‘W’ within the diamond most likely relates to the products being commissioned and produced for the Office of Works (until 1939) and the Minister of Works (post 1940). This mark is there to distinguish the piece from being normal ‘utilitarian’ ware for public sale or belonging to anyone organisation. Canteen ware was also supplied to the British Government during the reign of King George V |
King George V (1910-36)
King George VI (1936-52)
Section of an engraved copper
plate, used to make the transfer
for the marking for ware produced by Ashworth Bros
|
|
Bourne & Son Ltd |
 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lovatt's Potteries Ltd
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tuscan China
|
Royal Stafford |
Pountney & Co Ltd
|
|
|
|
||
|
|||
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
 E II R |
 E II R G. L. Ashworth & Bros. LD. 1956 |
 16 756 impressed marks - the '16' is probably a size mark and the 756 will be the month/year of manufacture - in this case July 1956 |
Marks on a large white, ironstone platter produced for the British armed services and canteens (hence the E II R Cypher)
|
|
|
||
Also see: - Ware supplied under the Wartime Concentration Scheme
Questions, Comments, Contributions? email: Steve Birks