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YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, ETC. 
much in vogue for about thirty years, beginning in 1850, but the 
demand for them gradually dwindled down to nothing, and none 
were made here since 1895. They were chiefly used by butchers 
as meat dishes and are now somewhat difficult to obtain. 
Only the early ones were marked HARWOOD, impressed on 
the back. The colouring or combing on some of these dishes is 
on the top of the glaze and not under it. 
Some fine cobles, in pottery, were made at Stockton. These 
are representations of the Yorkshire fishing and pleasure boats 
known as cobles. Also toad and frog mugs, decorated with lustre 
and a verse and a ship outside, and having the usual amphibian 
inside. 
Fig. 97. Coble. Mr. A. Hurst’s Collection. 
Fig. 98. Toad Mug. York Museum Collection. 
The other potteries in Stockton, though on the Durham side of 
the Tees, were the “Clarence Potteries,” Norton, where the 
Welsh trays were made, founded by Thomas Harwood in 1849, 
and carried on by him till his death. Sold by his trustees in 1877 
to the present owners and operators, “ The Clarence Potteries Co. 
