by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Blue and white ceramic, lower base-rim of cup or vase with oriental pattern (possibly willow pattern).
by Tom Licence | Apr 16, 2019
Souvenir cup, showing colour scene of ‘The Beach Great Yarmouth’, with boats, bathing machines and buildings in the background.
by Tom Licence | Feb 24, 2019
Coloured souvenir cup, showing ‘Yarmouth beach from the jetty’. Bathers, bathing machines and deck-chairs can be seen in the foreground. Like other souvenir cups sold to Yarmouth tourists, this one was made in Germany. It has been re-used, probably after...
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
White ceramic souvenir cup, printed ‘A Present from Great Yarmouth’, with ‘Made in Germany’ stamp on bottom. The handle is missing.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Painted cup, saying ‘A Present from Broadstairs’ (Kent). The bottom bears the name ‘E. H. White, Broadstairs’ (probably referring to the retailer). The handle is missing.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Broken half-pint mug, impressed with the stamp of Doulton, Yarmouth.
by Tom Licence | May 14, 2018
Hand-painted tea cup, crudely decorated with under-glaze green stripes and blue bands and over-glaze red dots. There is a single blue band below the rim, inside.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
Left: fragments of blue and white willow-pattern plates. One piece is fused within a piece of clinker, showing that a layer of rubbish had been burned at a very high temperature (possibly as fuel to fire a furnace used for some industrial process during the...
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
Centimetres scale: above it, oyster shells and, to the right, clinker. Above the shells, bird and animal bones, some with butchery marks. The small item, top centre/left, beneath the green and white lid for a toiletries holder, is part of a large crab claw, possibly...
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
An assemblage of household rubbish discarded in the 1870s at Brockdish rectory. Top left (from left to right): clinker, oyster shells, small bones, green glass German mineral water bottle fragments and aqua glass English wine/ ale bottle fragments, ‘black’...
by Tom Licence | Mar 6, 2016
Cup printed with the name of Lockhart’s Cocoa Rooms (in London). Printed on the bottom ‘Real Ironstone China, Dunn Bennett & Co, Burslem’. Found amid London rubbish dumped on the Essex marshes.
by Tom Licence | Feb 26, 2016
Pearlware (c. 1820-50) child’s cup, showing an older and a younger girl skipping. Around the pedestal is the text ‘A Present from my Cousin’. The handle is missing. Discarded with rubbish in a ditch that was filled in 1883.
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
Transfer-printed cup, with pink, blue and gold colouring, showing the Clarkson Monument and General Post Office, Wisbech. Chipped but intact when discarded in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
A cup from a dolls’ tea set. It has been in a destructor. Discarded in London; dumped in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jan 11, 2015
Part of a cup from ‘The Help Myself Coffee Palace Company’, which was at 216 Old Kent Road. Refreshments were served to subscribers who paid 2d a week. Discarded in East London and dumped in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Child’s cup, showing lover in Georgian dress, courting in a garden, with an elm to the rear. Hand-painted (by factory children) over a black transfer.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Transfer-printed child’s cup with verses from an unidentified poem, ‘… blossom gay’/ ‘… the hay’/ ‘… know’/ …, showing a little girl holding flowers.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Child’s cup showing a cook holding a wooden spoon, in the midst of some incident (with a child or animal in the kitchen?) Note the enormous pan on the stove behind. Transfer dark blue on white.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Mug with proverb ‘Little strokes fell great oaks’, depicting a man cutting down a tree. The maxim on the other side, with its illustration, has been lost. It ended in ‘[?ho]use’. This is very similar to the ‘Temperance Mug’ (see...
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Transfer-printed pictorial mug with maxims, including ‘When the drink is in the wit is ou[t]’, and another, which has been lost. Both principles are illustrated in (comic?) scenes above.
