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
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Company
History
Fielding's & Co was founded in 1870, operating from the Railway Pottery in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. By 1911 they were also operating from the Devon Pottery. Marks As well as marking their wares as Fielding as shown below, the company also used the Crown Devon trade name on many of it's products.     Advertising Match Strikers Match Strikers provided an ideal space for advertising a wide variety of products, as they were ubiquitous objects, and would be used many times a day. They could be provided to bars, cafes, restaurants etc or given away as promotional objects. The example shown below advertise Bryant & May matches and is a matchbox holder which meant it could be used with friction or safety matches. It also incorporates and ash tray with grooves to place cigarettes in. The Second example also advertises Bryant & May's matches, but is based on a design originally registered by Macintyre & Co and is designed to hold a large sized match box. The next pair advertise the Worthington brewery, and as they share a colour pallet probably date from a similar period. The match box holder has a registered design number of 633608 on the base which dates it to 1914 (or possibly very early 1915). The final two examples advertises Mountain Dew (what I think was a Whiskey based liqueur) made by Robert Sanderson & Co of Leith (now part of Edinburgh, Scotland).       - |
