YORK POTTERY. 
Ill 
I have a blue printed earthenware soup plate which has printed 
on the back in large ornamental capitals in blue, 
J. T. BUCKLE & CO. YORK. 
In 1846, John Townsend Buckle & Co., 18 Low Ousegate, York, 
were china and earthenware merchants. The firm is now Messrs. 
Newington and Scott. 
Mr. Giles, the deputy town clerk of York, tells me that he has 
found Mansion House accounts with Buckle and Co. in 1842 for 
the sum of two pounds, six shillings, and in 1845 for the sum of 
forty-four pounds, eight shillings, for china, etc. The white china 
cups and saucers at the Mansion House, York, with a broad blue 
band, and the York coat of arms in the centre in colours, were 
made by Messrs. Minton, but the saucers have on the back in 
writing letters, J. T. Buckle & Co. York. 
It was often the practice for dealers in china and earthenware 
to have their names put on the ware they dealt in, though of 
course the) 7 had nothing whatever to do with the manufacture 
of the same, which was turned out for them at some well-known 
pottery. 
The Registered Mark Act only came into force about 1867, 
though of course many potteries adopted marks of their own long 
before that. Pieces marked according to the Act may be about 
1867 or much later, for once on the register the makers generally 
use the mark on their ware. 
There are preserved at the Mansion House some very interest¬ 
ing Ward cups, generally known as the “ Ward Pottery,'' but 
they are in reality made of porcelain, and, in the opinion of Mr. 
J. R. Kidson, Leeds, are Salopian ware, made at the Caughley 
lactory in Shropshire, in the latter half of the 18th century. 
These cups are white, with a dark blue and gilt rim, and bear 
the coat of arms of the city of York, viz. : avgent a cross gules 
charged with five lions passant and guardant ov, also, according 
to the particular Ward to which they belong, the words 
MICKLE GATE WARD. 
MONCK WARD. 
WALMGATE WARD. 
Boot ham WARD. 
The Bootham cups have the lettering smaller than on the others, 
and they are without the blue and gilt rim. When Mr. Rhodes 
Brown was Lord Mayor in 1913, he very kindly allowed me to 
carefuly examine all the cups, and have a specimen from each 
