After 1879
ORIENTAL
The impressed 8/17 dates this example to August 1917; plural Ridgways indicates a post-1879 mark.
Pottery & porcelain · a closer look
Ridgways mark: Stoke-on-Trent
Mark details
- Maker
- Ridgways →
- Period
- Undated
- Wording
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Place
- Shelton, England
Notes
Bow-and-quiver marks without a place are generally circa 1880–1885, with circa 1885–1890, and with England circa 1891 onward. The source warns of exceptions and continued use after 1920.
Other Ridgways marks
c. 1880–1885
Stoke-on-Trent
Bow-and-quiver marks without a place name generally date circa 1880–1885, with documented later exceptions.
c. 1885–1890
Stoke-on-Trent
The source generally dates Stoke-on-Trent bow-and-quiver marks to about 1885–1890.
c. 1885–1890
Stoke-on-Trent
The source generally dates Stoke-on-Trent bow-and-quiver marks to about 1885–1890; 73316 is a pattern registration of 1887.
