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Posted by Andrew J Pye on July 11, 2008, 11:06 am, in reply to "Re: Help with a copeland and garrett pattern"
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Hi Chris
The mention in the Review was merely a footnote from the Editor to an article about a Felspar Porcelain bust of the Duke of Wellington made by Copeland & Garrett and Connie has quoted the footnote in full. There were no shapes or colours. The bust was believed to have been made about 1835, when the Duke of Wellington was a guest of the W T Copeland, then Lord Mayor of London, at one of the Mayoral Banquets. It was late in Wellington's career to produce a bust as he had been ousted as Prime Minister and, whilst he remained active in politics, his main position was as Comander in Chief of the British Army.
In the Dictionary it says that several of the Wellington china scenes were copied from illustrations in a 3 volume biography by W H Maxwell and published 1839-1841.
I have never actually seen any of this china, although there was a sauce tureen printed in black with Battle of Busaco on Ebay Express not long ago.
I was not aware that the B Number Pattern Book had been copied, so I am not sure what Connie meant about trying to obtain a copy, perhaps she meant of the Review? If you want to know more about the B Number pattern book and what it contains I can let you have a brief summary from Robert Copeland's mark book.
As there have been other questions about the Spode Society et al I have made a separate posting on that subject.
Regards
Andrew
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