Figs. 79 to 84.
In my own possession is a design, in pencil, by Mr. Duesbury, by his own hand, for a mark, which I engrave on Fig. [84], although I believe it was never adopted. At all events I have failed in discovering a single specimen so marked. Mrs. Palliser, however, engraves a mark as occurring on a cup and saucer, which somewhat assimilates to it. She also gives, from a specimen in her own possession, the word
in writing letters. This, she states, occurs “in black on a biscuit statuette;” but I fear the mark has been added at a later date. Another mark, which has been described to me, but of which I have not seen an example, is very similar to Fig. [84], but has the cross daggers and crown added, with the encircling words “DUESBURY, DERBY,” Fig. [85]. It may be well, en passant, to notice a mark which appears on one of the copper-plates of the Caughley works (see Vol. I., p. [273]). It is an anchor over the word “Derby.” As the initials RH conjoined also appear along with the anchor and word “Worcester,” and may mean either R. Hancock or Richard Holdship, the probability is they belong to the latter (who was connected with the Derby works), and that the anchor was adopted in allusion to his name, hold ship—a very clever and ingenious device. Another variety belonging to Mr. Robinson differs slightly from these.
Figs. 84 to 89.
On some services, notably on the royal service, mentioned on page 88, Mr. Bloor had his name painted in full—
Messrs. Robert Bloor & Co.,
34, Old Bond Street,