King Edward Hotel Enderby BC 1906-1910 Oval Plate SW Dean Burslem
Very nice plate to King Edward Hotel Enderby BC.
Maker marked on backside,S.W.Dean Ltd. Trifi Burslem.
Maker mark in black outline puts this plate in the 1906-1910 circa.
Hotel was built in 1905 and survived till after the 1940s.
Plate measures 8 1/4 inches x 5 1/4 inches.
Very nice black lined image decal of the hotel on side of plate lip.
Shows older style turret at top,this conical turret was replaced in 1911
with a castle style turret.
The hotel was made from brick the same year the brick yard was opened in
Enderby in 1905 by Andy Baird.
Condition:
Very nice overall condition.No cracks,chips,gouges or damage to plate.
It has some crazing to the glaze and some light discoloration to bottom .
Cleanable.One very tiny ding,right of logo about 1 1/2 inches,may be manufacture
flaw?
Overall a very nice and very scarce to find plate.
Earthenware manufacturer at the Newport pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England
After the closure of Edge, Malkin & Co. Samuel Webster Dean (who was the chairman of
Edge, Malkin & Co.) continued the business as S W Dean.
Samuel W. Dean also had interests in the Lodge Brick and Tile Co., Trent Vale and in
Sneyd Colliery and Newport Colliery.
In April 1906 that the business was incorporated as S.W. Dean Ltd., but as a matter
of fact it lay dormant until the agreement for sale and purchase was executed in March,
1909.
The business ran into financial difficulties and in June 1910 Samuel Webster Dean,
residing at Alexandra Road, Colwyn Bay, in the county of Denbigh was declared bankrupt.
In June 1911 the Pottery Gazette reported "Mr. S. W. Dean, formerly proprietor of the
Newport Pottery, Burslem, is now conducting a crockery agency in Montreal, and is
reported to be doing very well."
A new company was registered by J. D. Kerr at the Newport Pottery which continued as
Deans (1910) Ltd. (thepotteries)