Match Striker
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Match Striker
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Manufactures
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Charles Allerton &
Sons
Arkinstall & Sons Ltd (Arcadian China) Beswick Birks, Rawlins & Co W.T. Copeland & Sons Ltd (Spode) Doulton & Co Ltd Dudson Empire Porcelain Co (Ltd) Fieldings & Co Grimwades Ltd (Royal Winton) F. & W. Goebel Co Gouda Ralph Hammersley & Son  Edward Jones & Co Ltd Lister Lovatt & Lovatt James MacIntyre & Co Manor Ware Mintons Olivant Potteries Ltd F. & R. Pratt & Co (Ltd) Price, Bristol Prinknash Abby Pottery A.G. Richardson & Co Ltd (Crown Ducal) Salopian Art Pottery Co "Victoria" Schmidt & Co (GEMMA) Shelley Potteries Ltd Soho Pottery Ltd Taylor, Tunnicliff & Co Unknown Makers Watcombe Wedgwood Wiltshaw & Robinson (Carlton Ware) (1) Wiltshaw & Robinson (Carlton Ware) (2) W. Wood & Co Composite Section
(brings together information on types of match striker from elsewhere on the site) Advertising Match Strikers Crested Match Strikers |
Company
History
A.G. Richardson & Co. Ltd. was set up in 1915 and based at the Gorden Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent up to 1924. The firm then took over and moved to the Britannia Pottery in Cobridge in 1933. In 1931 the celebrated Charlotte Rhead came to work for the factory introducing the tube lining technique of decoration. She finally after 9 years in 1942. Production continued up to 1974 when Wedgwood bought the property and relocated it to Yorkshire. Marks The trade name Crown Ducal was used in may of the companies marks. The example below was used from 1925 onwards   Match
strikers with ash
trays
Both of these matchbox holders (so they could have been used with simple friction matches, or safety matches) have ash trays to contain spent matches and cigarette ash, the second which advertises Bryant & May matches also has grooves to hold a cigarette securely when placed in the ash tray.   |
