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collections pieces of one kind or other will be found bearing 



the mark 



WEDGWOOD & Co., 



and others with the mark of 



WEDGEWOOD, 



sometimes impressed, and sometimes in colour. The latter, 

 it will be observed, has a central E, which the real name of 

 Wedgwood does not possess. These I have heard variously 

 appropriated by collectors to Wedgwood and Bentley, to 

 Wedgwood and Byerley, and to a dozen other supposed 

 periods and people. I am enabled to state that these pieces, 

 many of them highly creditable and excellent productions, 

 were not made by the Etruria Wedgwoods at all, but that 

 the latter (the " Wedgewood," and sometimes the " Wedg- 

 wood ") were the manufacture of Messrs. William Smith, 

 and others, of Stockton, against whom Messrs. Wedgwood 

 applied for and obtained an injunction restraining them from 

 using the name of " Wedgwood, or " Wedgewood." 



The following official notification will well explain this 

 matter, and prove of considerable interest to collectors : 



" Vice-Chancellor of England's Court, 



" Lincoln's Inn, 8th August, 1848. 



"Lsr CHANCERY. 

 " Wedgwood and others against Smith and others. 



" Mr. BETHELL on behalf of the Plaintiffs, Francis Wedgwood and 

 llobert Brown (who carry on the business of Potters, at Etruria, in 

 the Staffordshire Potteries, under the Firm of ' Josiah Wedgwood 

 and Sons'), moved for an Injunction against the defendants, William 

 Smith, John Walley, George Skinner, and Henry Cowap (who also 

 carry on the business of Potters, at Stockton, in the County of 

 Durham, under the Firm of 'William Smith and Company'), to 

 restrain them and every of them, their Agents, Workmen, or Ser- 

 vants, from stamping, or engraving, or marking, or in any way 

 putting or placing on the ware manufactured by them, the De- 

 fendants, the name 'Wedgwood' or 'Wedgewood,' and from in any 

 manner imitating or counterfeiting such name on the Ware manu- 

 factured by the Defendants since the month of December, 1846, or 



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