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
The firm initially began as Gadd and Price in Bristol in 1797 and then continued in various incarnations, always including members of the Price family until it's closure in 1961. In 1798 it was Price and Read, Price, Charles Price and Son (1822), Charles Price and Sons (1843), Charles and Joseph Price (1850), Joseph and Charles Price & Brothers (1864), Price, Sons & Co (1883). The final incarnation as Price, Powell & Co began in 1906 when the firm took over another well established Bristol Pottery belonging to the Powell family. The factorys output was typically brown stoneware with ginger beer bottles and similar stamped items being produced initially with black stamps only, but later, from 1888, in colour. A much more detailed account of the firms history which has provided me with almost all of the information on given here can be found on Rod Dowling's "Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain" website. Marks Typically wares have an impressed mark of "Price, Bristol" (even after the take over of Powell), with a letter or number of uncertain function between them (they are certainly not a model number as the W on the mark from the match striker shown below is also seen on a jug).  Advertising Match Striker
The match striker shown below advertises Griffin, Woodcock & Co's Mineral Waters. This firm was based in the Village of Hazelwell which is now part of Tunbridge (Tonbridge) Wells and may date to pre 1901 when ginger beer bottles (also made by Price) give the firms name as Griffin, Woodcock & Co Limited.   |
