Code for dating bone china
12-Jan-2020 09:08
Using the Spode archive and published books you can learn about the many different backstamps (marks) on Spode pieces.This though can only be a guide to a date - it is not an exact science and some backstamps were used for many, many years.In our highlighted record search you’ll find digitised pages from the earliest bone china patterns in Pattern Book No.1, from the most richly decorated patterns of the “H” series, from the temporary “X” patterns of the 1940s and from the many others in-between.The number of highlighted records in each of our themed searches will be growing over time, so check back to see what else we’ve uncovered from the Minton company records catalogue.Pieces were not always marked and sometimes just a pattern number appears and no Spode name at all.Painted marks are often in red and marks can also appear printed usually in blue or black, (although other colours were used) or impressed into the clay so appearing colourless.
Start of the Spode business to 1833: the company was known as Spode.
The Worcester Royal Porcelain Co Ltd was formed in 1862.