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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9609734, member: 649"]Re: your question about a possible association with the Queen Anne company...</p><p>It has happened that different companies sold virtually the same ware under their own name. For example, I have several early 19th century New Hall cups and saucers in <a href="https://ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk/puzzles/copies.html#ylwshell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk/puzzles/copies.html#ylwshell" rel="nofollow">the Yellow Shell pattern</a> which are virtually identical to those produced by Minton, Machin, and a few others.</p><p>What I can find of Queen Anne, whose stuff is in the same class as Royal Kent, it <i>seems</i> unlikely that the two companies were connected. Per <a href="https://www.chinasearch.co.uk/queen-anne/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.chinasearch.co.uk/queen-anne/" rel="nofollow">chinasearch</a>:</p><p>"Queen Anne was a brand name introduced in the late 1940s by Shore & Coggins where they produced bone china at their Edensor Works until 1966. The Queen Anne brand name then became part of the Ridgway Potteries group and was used by them for bone china through the 1980s."</p><p>However, there were large pottery groups, each with control of several subsidiaries, and smaller companies often seemed to get passed around repeatedly so... who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: I have found that in 1964 the Pearson Group purchased Thomas C. Wild & Sons. (Wild had bought Shore & Coggins, mentioned above, in 1918.) In 1971 the Pearson Group also purchased Doulton... remember, Doulton is said to have purchased Royal Kent sometime in the 1970s... so there <i>is</i> a tangled connection.</p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/19c.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/19c.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/19c.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I love English pottery and china and enjoyed my dive into this part of its history![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9609734, member: 649"]Re: your question about a possible association with the Queen Anne company... It has happened that different companies sold virtually the same ware under their own name. For example, I have several early 19th century New Hall cups and saucers in [URL='https://ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk/puzzles/copies.html#ylwshell']the Yellow Shell pattern[/URL] which are virtually identical to those produced by Minton, Machin, and a few others. What I can find of Queen Anne, whose stuff is in the same class as Royal Kent, it [I]seems[/I] unlikely that the two companies were connected. Per [URL='https://www.chinasearch.co.uk/queen-anne/']chinasearch[/URL]: "Queen Anne was a brand name introduced in the late 1940s by Shore & Coggins where they produced bone china at their Edensor Works until 1966. The Queen Anne brand name then became part of the Ridgway Potteries group and was used by them for bone china through the 1980s." However, there were large pottery groups, each with control of several subsidiaries, and smaller companies often seemed to get passed around repeatedly so... who knows? EDIT: I have found that in 1964 the Pearson Group purchased Thomas C. Wild & Sons. (Wild had bought Shore & Coggins, mentioned above, in 1918.) In 1971 the Pearson Group also purchased Doulton... remember, Doulton is said to have purchased Royal Kent sometime in the 1970s... so there [I]is[/I] a tangled connection. Source: [URL]http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/19c.htm[/URL] I love English pottery and china and enjoyed my dive into this part of its history![/QUOTE]
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