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Article: Big ticket items are really quite small figures
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2009
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D ated January 1, 1855 is a commemorative jug titled The Royal
Patriotic Jug, bearing black and white transfer scenes of the
Crimean War. The vessel was made by Samuel Alcock & Co, one of the
leading potteries in Staffordshire of the mid 19th century, in the
heart of the potteries at Burslem.
Samuel Alcock (1799-1848) was the ninth child in a farming family
so, with no hope of taking on the family concern, branched out on
his own and joined an uncle who had a business in Market Square,
Hanley. This gave him a taste of commerce and he was then taken on
as a partner to Ralph Stevenson of Cobridge in Staffordshire who, by
the 1830s, had 600 workers in his company.
It was quite common for ...