The marks used at Caughley and Coalport have been very few, but they are very important, and require careful attention at the hands of the collector. In my account of the Worcester works I have given several varieties of the crescent as a mark of that establishment, and have also stated that it was used at Caughley. I believe the first mark used at Caughley to have been the crescent alone, and that it was, as I have before stated, intended to have the signification of a C for Caughley, and that its connection with the Worcester works may, in a great measure, be traced to the fact of the goods on which it appears being printed, not at that city, but at Caughley. I have seen examples of this mark on undoubted Worcester body, and also on equally undoubted Caughley make, bearing precisely the same printed patterns. The following are some of the varieties of the crescent occurring on Caughley specimens, and show pretty clearly its transition from a common “half-moon” (I have often heard it called “half-moon china”) to the finished and engraved C.
C C’ C C c
Figs. 588 to 592.
Another mark said to have been used at Caughley, but of which at present I have met with no example, is the accompanying,
which is very similar to the mark ascribed to the Leeds manufactory.
Another distinctive mark of the Salopian works was the capital letter S, of which the following are varieties:—
S S Sx Sx So S S