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
James MacIntyre & Co arose from the firm of Kennedy and MacIntyre in 1860, operating from the Washington Works in Burslem, Staffordshire. The firm is famous as it is where William Moorcroft began his career as a designer in 1897. He left the firm in 1912, taking much of Macintyre's work force with him. Since 1924 the firm has only produced electrical ware. Marks The firms wares were initially marked as "James MacIntyre", then in 1867 as "James MacIntyre & Co", finally after 1894 as "James MacIntyre & Co Limited". The example below dating between 1867 and 1894 also shows a retailers mark for Colin Lunn of Cambridge.   Crested
Match
Strikers
MacIntyre produced crested match strikers with a raised shield, bearing the coat of arms. The examples below include Colleges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, plus that of town of Perth, Scotland.       Patriotic Match Strikers The match striker shown below dates from around the time of the Boer War. It shows a British soldier on the front, and part of the poem, The Absent Minded Beggar by Rudyard Kipling on the reverse (also shown below). A similar match striker was also produced advertising Ushers Whiskey (not illustrated).   Advertising
Match Strikers
This match striker advertises Bryant & May Safety Matches. It incorporates an ash tray, with slots to hold two cigarettes, and has a registered design number (RD NO. 519834) dating it to 1908. A near identical design was later made for Bryant & May by Fieldings & Co.  Other Match Strikers
This marbled match striker has a striking surface round the edge of the base. It is one of the oldest in my collection, and the registered design mark on the base (shown in the marks section above) indicates that the pattern was officially registered on 23rd January 1880.  Tobacco Jars & Match Strikers Some of the Tobacco Jars made by MacIntyre also incorporated match strikers on the side of the jar. The example below is a screw top jar which displays the Coat of Arms of Clare College, Cambridge. It was made for Colin Lunn (see the retailers marks section for more details)  |
