ADVERTISEMENTS. 



JOHN ROSE & CO., 

 Force LA in Ma nufa c turers, 



COALPOET, SHEOPSHIEE. 



Five minutes' walk from Coalport Station on the Severn Valley and 

 Shropshire Union Railway.s, 



MEDAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 1820. 



FIRST CLASS MEDAL, EXHIBITION, 1851. 



First Class Medal, Paris Exhibition, 1855. 



FIRST CLASS MEDAL, EXHIBITION, 1862. 



The Cov/rt Journal, speaking of tlie productions exhibited by 

 ■William Pugh, Esq., May, 1871, says — 



"We do not think that any porcelain prodlictions would equal those of the 

 Coalport works. The show-case that the owners exhibit independently, and their 

 manufactures, displayed by various finns, have, in all instances, the highest 

 merit. We are well aware we shall be informed that our praise is but a stale 

 echo, as this firm is renowned of old for producing the finest china, having some 

 process of blending or applying chemical agencies known only to themselves, and 

 being celebrated over Europe for the beautiful colour of the gold — a matter of 

 course of very considerable consequence, as it is used so bounteously in the orna- 

 mentation of china." 



In an article on the ** world's great show," as the Viennese were 

 pleased to call it, the same Journal remarked — 



" We have latterly challenged the continental world to compete with us and to 

 contend for equality in many branches of manufacture into which art excellence 



