MIDDLESBROUGH POTTERY. 
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colour as the above transfers. Within the horse-shoe appears the 
anchor and over this a crown, both impressed in the ware. Mr. 
Lincoln says that the crown was used to mark the better class 
(white paste) ware, which they generally spoke of as “ Crown 
Ware.” These two plates of course belong to the Isaac Wilson 
and Co’s, period. 
I have seen several pieces impressed on the back 
I. W. & Co. MIDDLESBRO. 
and I have a plate with a view of some of the kilns of the pottery 
in brown transfer on the back. 
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Fig. 78. Plaque. York Museum Collection. 
A curious mark on a plate in Mr. Hurst’s Collection is 
LONDON in a semicircle, and below, the anchor and cable, 
all impressed in a kite-shaped form. 
Chaffers, in his “ Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porce¬ 
lain,” nth edition, 1906, gives a figure of the same mark with IS 
over the impress, and in this connection Mr. Baker Hudson tells 
me that there was a Mr. I. Sharpe connected with the early days 
of Middlesbrough, who also might have had something to do with 
the pottery, or the initials might stand for the London dealer who 
sold the ware. 
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