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
Gouda is a particular style of pottery, made by a wide variety of Dutch Potterys and named after the town in Holland. Some of the factories involved in the manufacture of this style of pottery were Goedewaagen, Ivora, Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland (PZH), Regina, Schoonhoven and Zenith. One of the match striker illustrated here is by PZH so a little more information on that factory is in order. The firm was founded in 1898 as Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland, E.Estié & Co by Egbert Estié. It then became Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland when the factory was taken over by W. Hoyng and family. It finally closed in 1964 The other is by Regina which was founded by Van der Want and Barras as a clay pipe manufacturer in 1898. They began to make art pottery around 1915 in competition with PZH. In 1917 the firm widened it's selection suing both molds, designs and artists from the Rozenberg factory in the Hague which had gone bankrupt. The Regina Factory eventually closed in 1979 Marks The marks for the Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland factory can be very complex. The first example shows the central 'little house' mark that identifies it as a PZH piece. A pattern name is also show (Ontario), as well as a date mark for 1927 (cross & dots). Other information that may be present include model, mould and pattern numbers, artists initials or marks. The second example shows part of the stamp like paper label also used by the PZH factory. The third example is from the Regina factory, a pattern name (Maas) is shown, W.B. refers to the factory founders Want & Barras, Gouda & Holland to the place of manufacture, and the crown mark dates this example to the 1920's. The fourth example is another Regina mark, this time showing the pattern name (Rosario) and a pattern/shape number (476). 
  
Match
strikers with ash
trays
The first example is a matchbox holder in the Ontario pattern from the PZH factory (painted by Hendrik van Wensveen in the mid 1920s), and has an integral ash tray to put matches or cigarette ash in. The second example is in the Maas pattern on model number 295 from the Regina factory, probably decorated some time in the 1920's (dated using the crown mark) (the matchboxes used for the photos are slightly too large, but gives an idea of what they would have looked like when in use).   Egg Cup Style Match Striker This Egg Cup shaped match striker was manufactured by the Regina factory arround 1930-1940, and is decorated in the 'Rosario' pattern. There is ridge to strike matches on (Visible in the marks section above), on the base. I have shown 2 views of this item to so that the whole pattern is on view.   (the
information about the Gouda factories, makers marks, painters etc on
this page is based on information supplied by Stuart & Kim of
Gouda-Design both directly and via their website Gouda-Design).
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