A Celebration of Royal Crown Derby® 1927-1961
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The aims of this site are as follows:-
1) To showcase relevant Royal Crown Derby® collections of the relevant period and thereby provide a useful reference for Collectors.
2) To build upon the resource by including images from other collections (with appropriate acknowledgements given).
3) To celebrate the skill and artistry of the workforce.
4) To promote interest, debate and further research into the factory's production and activities during the period.
Acknowledgements:
I am indebted to the Royal Crown Derby® Museum Trustees for providing access to the museum and museum archive, especially to the pattern books for the period.
I am very grateful to Mrs Sue Eedle MA (Cantab) for interpreting the Arabic writing in the Overseas Commissions section.
Christopher Robinson BA Hons has been instrumental in setting up this site and providing ongoing IT advice and support.
Miss H Goodsell MA has kindly undertaken extensive research on the Derby Evening Telegraph Archive 1950-62.
Kathryn Jones, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts Royal Collection Trust, has kindly provided research on the Queen’s vase and given permission to use the Trust’s photograph.
The Derby Telegraph has very kindly allowed me to include photographs taken by the paper's photographers.
I would also like to thank UK auction houses for their patience in providing factory mark images etc. especially the Directors and Staff of BAMFORDS and HANSONS Auctioneers, without whose support it would not have been possible to form the collection.
A special thanks to the Internet Sellers based worldwide who made it all possible.
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Bibliography:
Bow, Chelsea, and Derby Porcelain - William Bemrose 1898
Derby (Evening) Telegraph - Articles 1927-1962
Pottery Gazette and Glass Trades Review - Various articles 1938-1957
GB Patent – GB325842 325,842 Robinson H T Nov 30 1928 – Improvements in setters employed for firing china.
The Story of Derby China – undated pamphlet
The Story of Derby China – Brown Cover – 1929
United States Patent Office – Covered Dish or Similar Article – HTR July 16th 1929
United States Patent Office – Plate or similar article – HTR Oct 22nd 1929
The Peak District - R Murray Gilchrist & Ernest Haslehust
Windsor Castle – Edward Thomas & Ernest Haslehust
James Allcock Robinson’s Will 10th Jan 1931
Harold Taylor Robinson presenting group of Mayors with a Cauldon China Service plate – Kings Hall Stoke 1931 – http://www.thepotteries.org/photo_wk/161.htm
King St Brochure C 1934-5
Thomas Goode Brochure and Price List – C1950 – includes shapes outlines – Patterns 2451, Ashby, Medway, Chatsworth & Asian Rose Illustrated
Crown Derby Porcelain - Brayshaw Gilhespy – 1951 – Copy presented to W W Randle Esq by “Mr Robinson” chairman of Directors
New Price Scales – December 1952 Includes story of crown derby leaflet. Gives price differential for UK and Canadian Markets
British Potters and Pottery Today
United States Patent 2642644 Pottery Casting Machine – Philip Ivor Robinson
Impressions of a visit to the world famous factory of Royal Crown Derby – (Staff Reporter of the Pottery Gazette) 1954
Colour Advert from House & Garden Magazine – May 1954 Posie and Asian Rose illustrated
RCD Pattern Book – from the Godden Collection with insert containing outline sketches of shapes.(Dated May 1955)
Price list of unboxed fancies – May 1955 – Orange Folder
Order for a banquet service for 24 persons - 27th January 1958
Factory Price List for items in illustrated catalogue – Jan 1959
1959 American Catalogue and Price List
Modern Porcelain – Alberta C Trimble – 1962 ( pages 82-91)
Royal Crown Derby China F Brayshaw Gilhespy & Dorothy Budd 1964
RCD Figurines Catalogue – loose pages – C1964
Derby China – County Borough of Derby Museum & Art Gallery - 1969
History of Burton Upon Trent - Denis Stuart - 1975
Royal Crown Derby John Twitchett & Betty Bailey 1976
Thomas Goode of London – Philip M Rayner – 1977
1978 RCD Brochures, Tableware and Gift ware
Crested China – Sandy Andrews – 1980
1980 RCD Tableware Brochure
1986 RCD Brochure
Royal Crown Derby John Twitchett & Betty Bailey 1988 (Revised edition)
Derby Porcelain International Society Journal II 1991 - The New China Works on Nottingham Road Derby - John Twitchett
Ten Plain Years: The British Pottery Industry 1942-1952 Kathy Niblett Journal of the Northern Ceramic Society Volume 12 1995
RCD Imari Wares – Ian Cox 1998
Goss & Crested China – Lynda Pine (Millers Guide 2001)
Royal Crown Derby – Margaret Sargeant - 2000
Jenny Hill – British Empire Exhibition 1924-25 Commemorative Ceramics – Exhibition Study Group 2002
A pocket Guide to Carlton Ware – Dr Czes & Yvonne Kosniowski – 2005
Goss & Souvenir Heraldic China – Lynda Pine – 2005
Gold in my veins – Betty Wherry 2008
Derby Porcelain International Society Newsletter No 61 - Winter 2008 - Waste not, want not: Osmaston Road’s use of King Street stock after the 1935 takeover Ian C Harding - Winter 2008
Derby Porcelain International Society Journal 6 2009“Cracking the Code” Ian C Harding
Derby Porcelain International Society Journal 7 “William Edwin Mosley 1877-1956: Letters Home” Bryan Merrett
Mike Perry – Harold Taylor Robinson Potteries Entrepreneur, Part 1 Rise, Part 2 Fall & Rebirth
Mike Perry 2010 – Cauldon Potteries Ltd