BIRKS & RAWLINGS & Co (Stoke On Trent (1900 /1933) Miniature...

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£5

BIRKS & RAWLINGS & Co (Stoke On Trent (1900 /1933) Miniature 6cm "PERSINDO" JUG.
(The Vine Pottery was founded by Lawrence Arthur Birks and Charles Frederick Goodfellow in Stoke-upon-Trent in 1895 and operated as L.A. Birks & Co.
Beginning with small scale production of fine bone china tableware, the company fortunes were transformed in 1901 when Edmund G. Reuter was employed as designer. He introduced an ivory porcelain with middle eastern decoration known as 'Persindo Porcelain'.
Many new designers were then attracted to the firm resulting in numerous international awards and even royal patronage from Queen Mary.
In 1907 Birks, Rawlins & Co. were listed as "China and Savoy Heraldic China Manufacturers"
The 1914 edition of Whitaker's Red Book of Commerce records birks, Rawlins & Co as China and porcelain manufacturers with 130 employees. Specialities: china, tea, breakfast and dessert ware; "Savoy" heraldic china, Royal Mercian porcelain, Persindo art porcelain.
Troubled times in the 1920s after the National Strike and the Wall Street Crash led ultimately to financial difficulty and by 1928 the business had been aquired by Wiltshaw & Robinson of the at the Carlton Works in Copeland Street, Stoke.)