Match Striker
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Match Striker
Gallery Homepage Manufactures (click to view match strikers and company history) 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 Unmarked Match Strikers Metal Match Strikers (1) Metal Match Strikers (2) Retailers Marks Composite Section (brings together information on types of match striker from elsewhere on the site) Advertising Match Strikers Crested Match Strikers Links Suggested Reading |
Company History The Prinknash Pottery was founded by the Benedictine monks of Prinknash Abbey as one of the many ways to provide income for their order. IN 1939 building work on the abbey (interrupted by the second world war) led to the discovery of a seam of red clay. This ready availability of this material led the the formation of Prinknash Pottery in 1942. The monks continued to produce pottery until 1997, when the company was sold to the Welsh Pottery Co, and subsequently closed (I believe in 2003). Once of the most distinctive features of the pottery was a 'gun metal' colour glaze used on a number of their wares. Marks A number of different printed and impressed marks were used by the pottery, all incorporating the word "Prinknash"  Stylized Match Striker This match striker is more decorative than functional, and is probably derived from the match holder with ashtray type. the raised foot rim has replaced the ashtray, and provided a greater scope for decoration. The actual match holder is rather deep, and tricky to get matches out of.  |
