Makers

Albert Carter

Albert Carter | Birmingham Silver maker and Enamel Ware Founded by Albert Carter in 1900 in Birmingham. After studying at the Birmingham central school of Arts and Crafts. Albert Carter was the only manufacturer of enamel goods in the country. He...

Alexander Clark

Alexander Clark - London Silver maker 1891-1898. The Alexander Clark manufacturing co. 1898-1912. The Alexander Clark Co Ltd 1912 - 1940s Founded in 1891 by Alexander Clark. Fenchurch Street, London. The company became active in Birmingham,...

Caithness Glass

Founded by Robin Sinclair in Wick, North East Scotland in 1961. Creators of art glass and glass paperweights. Their paperweights have a following among collectors the world over. Caithness Glass is the world's leading producer of fine-quality glass...

Capodimonte

Capo-di-Monte porcelain was first made in Naples, Italy, from 1743 to 1759. Capo-di-Monte porcelain was made in direct emulation of Meissen porcelain. Capo-di-Monte Famous for its Figurines moulded flowers applied to cups and vases.

Carlton Ware

Pottery manufacturer based in Stoke-on-Trent. Known for it's often rather garish tableware, often in the form of highly decorated leaves or fruit, and the ceramic toucans it made as promotional items for Guinness. It produced hand-painted domestic...

Carn pottery

Founded by John M Beusmans in the early 1970s in the village of Nancledra near St. Ives in Cornwall. Carn pottery has a reconisable style due to it's sculptural shape and form. Carn pottery has become a popular and collectable pottery, and the...

Carnival Glass

Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, always with a pattern and always with a shiny, metallic, 'iridescent' surface shimmer. A wide range of colours and colour combinations were used but the most common colours accounted for a large proportion...

Carrs of Sheffield

Carrs of Sheffield are modern day makers of contemporary and traditional silver photograph frames, jewellery, cutlery and tableware. In 1976 Ron Carr founded his business in Sheffield. Carrs is dedicated to restoring and rejuvenating the best of...

Cartier

Cartier - Watchmakers and Jewellers. Founded in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, in Paris France. The company designs, manufactures, distributes and sells jewellery and watches. Cartier is a brand name worldwide. The company is best known for its...

Caughley

Caughley Porcelain Founded by Ambrose Gallimore and Thomas Turner, makers of soft-paste porcelain in Caughley near Broseley Shropshire, England. Operating from around 1775 to 1799. Tea services, dinner services and other everyday wares were...

Chad Valley

Chad Valley is a long-established brand of toys in the United Kingdom. founded by Anthony Bunn Johnson in the early 1900s. The company derived its name from the area they operated from Harborne Chad Valley. Although having its roots in printing. The...

Chance glass

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks and a leading glass manufacturer and pioneer of British glassmaking technology. They founded their business in Spon Lane, Smethwick in 1824 in the West Midlands. Chance Brothers became the first company...

Chawner | Silversmiths

Chawner | Silversmiths - London (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Thomas Chawner (1772) George Hemming & William Chawner (1774) Henry Chawner (1789)(1792) Hallmark HC William Eley, William Fearn & William...

Christofle

Christofle of Paris - Silver maker Founded in 1830 by Charles Christofle a jeweller. They are manufacturers of picture frames, crystal vases and glassware, porcelain dinnerware and silver jewellery and holloware. In 1842 Christofle negotiated a...

Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff, 20 January 1899 – 23 October 1972. Ceramic artist, active from 1922 to 1963. Clarice started work at the age of 13 in 'The Potteries'. went to work at the AJ Wilkinson's pottery factory in 1916. The factory continued to produce...

Cloisonne

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects. To create the decoration the metal objects have silver or gold wires attached to them forming compartments these compartments were then filled in with enamel powder then fired. In...

Coalbrookdale

Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England. This is where Abraham Darby rebuilt an existing damaged furnace which he operated with coke as his fuel for smelting iron. Abraham Darby founded his company in 1709. Using...

Coalport

Collingswood

Collinson

J. Collinson and Sons of Liverpool - Rocking horse maker. Established in 1836, a small family concern. Makers, sellers and restorers of traditional rocking horses. 1836-1993. In the beginning their horses were painted in a variety of colours but in...

Comyns | London Silvermakers

Comyns | London Silver Makers Marks (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Charles & Richard Comyns - (1903)(1925) Silver Hallmark C&R over C Richard Comyns (1934)(1962) - Silver Hallmark R.C William Comyns...

Continental

Cooper Bros & Sons

Cooper Bros & Sons - Sheffield Silversmiths. Founded in 1866 by Thomas and William Cooper. Don Plate Works, Sheffield. Manufacturers of electroplated forks, spoons, etc., and that of electro-plated "hollow-ware", both in German silver and solid...

Copeland

Cotswold School

Cotswold School. Craftsman made Arts and Crafts furniture. The Cotswolds became an important centre for the Arts and Crafts Movement in the early 20th century. The school encouraged the learning of practical skills and valued craftwork. The designs...

Cranberry Glass

Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass. It's heyday was in the 19th century Victorian era. Legend holds that cranberry glass was first discovered when a noble tossed a gold coin...

Crested Ware

As the name suggests it was usually small items of china bearing the crest of the area in which it was sold as holiday souvenirs. It's success lies in the growth of the railways after the Industrial Revolution, and the popularity of seaside holidays....

Crown Derby

Crown Devon - Fieldings

Crown Devon Pottery. Fieldings Crown Devon Pottery. In 1878 Simon Fielding set up his business at the railway works in Sutherland Street, Stoke on Trent and began trading along with his son Abraham as 'S Fielding and co'. Fieldings produced...

Cyma

Cyma SA is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury wristwatches, founded by brothers Joseph and Theodore Schwob in 1862. The Schwob brothers named the company Cyma, a Latin word meaning "sprout", focusing much of their attention on avant-garde mechanical...

Maison Charles

Maison Charles Lighting was founded in 1908 by Ernest Charles at the former Ullmann bronze works. The company was located at 103 Rue de Turenne in Paris. He specialised in the reproduction of antique lighting and bronze casting. The company was taken...

Robert Chandler

Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater | Silversmiths

Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater | Silversmiths - London

Webb Corbett

Webb Corbett Glass was set up by Herbert Webb and Thomas Webb III along with George Harry Corbett in 1897 at the Wordsley glass works near Stourbridge, England. Webb Corbett were manufacturers of high quality cut lead crystal tableware and vases. The...