Sincere apologies if this is a double post, but it seems that my reply to Kent Taylor listed below may not have made it through to the list. Either that, or the accidental use of an alternative e-mail address on my part caused confusion.
I also get the digest version, so I don't know yet whether or not this went through.
If this is a double post, then I hope everyone will forgive me just this once.
Alasdair
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Subject: Re: Maker's Mark query
From: "Alasdair Brooks" >;[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, March 11, 2007 23:28
Thanks to Kent Taylor - William Williams of Ynysmeudwy would fit perfectly.
An undergraduate's borrowing my copy of Kowalsky right now (is that an excuse?), but given how much I've looked at Welsh pottery in the past, I should have thought of that, and am feeling rather sheepish right now.
For anyone else interested in this mark or the pottery, there's also a brief discussion on pages 55-56 of:
Pugh, Robert
1995 Welsh Pottery; The Potteries of South Wales: The Cambrian Pottery, Swansea (1764-1870), The Glamorgan Pottery, Swansea (1813-1839), The South Wales Pottery, Llanelly (1839-1922). Towy Publishing, Bath, UK.
Alasdair
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Alasdair,
The best I can come up with is WILLIAM WILLIAMS of the Ynysmeudwy Pottery,
near Swansea, Wales, c. 1856-1859. It was formerly known as MICHAEL &
WILLIAM WILLIAMS (1845-1856) and between c. 1860 and 1870 it was G. LEWIS &
MORGAN. These wares also appear to have been flow blues. This information
comes from the
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MARKS ON AMERICAN, ENGLISH, AND EUROPEAN EARTHENWARE,
IRONSTONE, AND STONEWARE (1780-1980) by Arnold A. & Dorothy E. Kowalsky,
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Altglen, Pennsylvania. p. 372
Kent Taylor
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