Read the stamp
Crock markings
Crock markings can identify a pottery or merchant, state a capacity or form part of the decoration; a large number commonly refers to capacity.
Capacity and maker stamp
Separate a prominent capacity numeral from an impressed company name or place stamp near the shoulder. A cobalt-painted motif is decoration and can occur on crocks from different workshops. A merchant’s name can identify who sold the vessel.
What to check next
Record the capacity number, rim profile, handle form and complete impressed lettering. Compare those features with the named pottery. A blue flower alone is less specific than a readable maker-and-town stamp.
Related marks
3,228 marks
c. 1913–1928
Moorcroft
Full painted signature with impressed BURSLEM separates this early independent format from Macintyre Florian Ware and the later royal stamp.
Undated
Beaumont Brothers Pottery
Three incised rows include the workshop initials, year and SR for Steve Rucker; the associated potter initials distinguish this combination.
Undated
Ken Edwards-associated workshop production
Underlined first line, repeated country wording and a separate fish-like painter symbol. This name appears on a Collection salad-plate format.
From 1992
Lisa Larson / Keramikstudion Gustavsberg
Large painted abbreviated name followed by K-Studion Gustavsberg, with a separate impressed country stamp.
Undated
Western Stoneware Company
Unlettered outlined maple leaf with a separate oval company stamp; ornamental capacity numeral above.
Undated
Glidden Pottery, Inc.
Hand-incised Glidden curves above the ram-head GP device; 274 is written separately below.
1953–1962
Warren MacKenzie
Illustrated example dated 1953-1962.
TMP places this exact photograph (mackenzie_1.jpg) beside 1953–1962 in Typical Marks. This association is not transferred to every similar WM chop.
Undated
Marshall Pottery
Circular POTTERY CO wording, POTTER inside the circle and the Tony Hayes signature; distinguish the INC circle and the straight Master Potter stamp.
c. 1907–1930
Lovatt / Langley Mill pottery lineage
Curved name-and-place impression with an additional LEADLESS GLAZE stamp; distinguish printed Langley Ware wording.
Undated
Salmon Falls Stoneware
Full factory name and Dover identify the pottery; changing the year does not create a new logo format.
Undated
Watt Pottery Company
The Eve-N-Bake trade name surrounds a central WATT inscription. Numbers identify a size or mould, not a year.
1929
Pisgah Forest Pottery / Walter B. Stephen
Split year 19 and 29, standing figure and high wheel identify the 1929 plate.
Undated
Hans Coper
A single HC monogram identifies Coper’s seal; circular foot rings around it are not additional marks.
Undated
Janet Leach
Triangular outline and back-to-back JL distinguish the personal mark; this seal alone does not narrow an object to a decade.
Undated
Hornsea Pottery
Open three-line name-and-pattern layout with dots differs from the circular name and care stamps. Different pattern names in this same layout are one family.
c. 1949
Bernard Leach
Painted signature instead of an impressed seal. Handwritten BL layouts vary; the pictured bowl is attributed c.1949.
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