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Mintons Pattern Identification Posted by Richard Golembiewski on March 3, 2008, 10:06 am 76.226.81.16 Hello, Can anyone help me identify this Mintons platter? It is 15" in diameter, coach profile, with an image of four children playing. A small boy is on a swing tied between two trees. Behind him, a young girl in a hat is pulling a rope tied to the swing. Below her are two more children, a boy and a girl, playing with a dog. This is all surrounded by a border of mixed flowers in a repeat pattern, running to a thin solid dark blue edge. It is stamped on the back with the Minton's mark and has an impressed swan image (1895-1900, I think), a heart, the number 51 and an impression reading Mintons over a large LS. My mother purchased it ata n estate sale 40 years ago. No one I've shown it to seems to be able to identify the pattern. I love the image of frolicking children...I just wish I knew what to call it. Any help you might be able to offer would be greatly appreciated. I can send jPegs, if you wish...I just don't know how to turn them into URLs. Thanks! Richard  Post a Response

Re: Mintons Pattern Identification Posted by Richard Golembiewski on March 3, 2008, 10:37 am, in reply to "Mintons Pattern Identification" 76.226.81.16 I have given my images to the webmastera nd she will post them within 48 hours.  Post a Response

Re: Mintons Pattern Identification Posted by webmaster on March 13, 2008, 10:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Mintons Pattern Identification" 72.244.71.27 Here is the first image.  Post a Response

Re: Mintons Pattern Identification Posted by webmaster on March 13, 2008, 10:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Mintons Pattern Identification" 72.244.71.27 Here is the second image.  Post a Response

Re: Mintons Pattern Identification Posted by David: TCC Web Administrator on March 14, 2008, 2:15 am, in reply to "Re: Mintons Pattern Identification" 75.36.131.83 Hi Richard: Your charger (they are not common!) is lovely. I might guess that it dates from the later 19th century. We don't (yet) have this pattern in our data base. The only reference on Minton in my library is Priestman's "An Illustrated Guide to Minton Printed Pottery, 1796-1836", and I don't see your pattern there. Kowalsky's Encyclopedia of Marks references an impressed "Mintons" mark, dating 1873-1951. Further, the swan (again, Kowalsky) is identified as a year cipher, ranging from 1895 to 1900, as you state. The heart is probably a workman's mark. "51" may be, also, but perhaps was meant to be "15", which would be the diameter of the piece (?). Thanks for your submittal. Hopefully someone out there has a reference which can provide a pattern name.  Post a Response

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