However, the plate that started this debate is clearly a quality piece made in Staffordshire in the 1830s. It is by Goodwins and Harris of Crown Works, Lane End active 1831 to 1838, with both predecessor and successor partnerships.
They used the lion over crown backstamp regularly, with variant initials, sometimes G H and sometimes G & H, sometimes a pattern number appears and sometimes a pattern name or both. We have notes so far of these patterns: No 3 British (a flower a basket design), No 10 Imperial Filigree, No 12 a floral design, No 13 a parakeet and foliage design, No 18 Grecian, No 19 Lace Flowers and No 38 Grecian Vase - the last a Goodwins & Ellis pattern.
Plate 1617 on page 270 of A Directory of British Teapots by Berthoud and Maskell illustrates a teapot in Grecian pattern with a printed mark of lion and crown and the letters G and H, plus to remove any doubt, the impressed mark Goodwins & Harris.
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