by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Broken half-pint mug, impressed with the stamp of Doulton, Yarmouth.
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 | Mar 3, 2016
Mocha ware half-pint ceramic pub mugs, stamped with the royal cipher. Discarded before 1883.
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 | Feb 26, 2016
Mocha ware half-pint pub mug, stamped with the royal cipher. Discarded with rubbish in a ditch filled in 1883.
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.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Child’s cup showing boy on miniature penny-farthing bicycle, with a second child very impressed. Blue transfer on white.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Part of the top of a mocha ware pint mug, with blue, white and black bands. These were used in public houses as standard pint mugs.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Assorted crockery from labourers’ rubbish, Kent. Mocha ware to the left, transfer-printed ware to the right (mostly in blue ‘Willow Pattern’). This type of crockery was cheaply manufactured and used universally. There is no hand-painted ware, which...
