The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800 (1908)
Blacker, J. F · London : London Opinion Curio Club · leaf 148
o marks, the X and the capital B, and each,when used, has often a number, from one to twenty-four. All the BRISTOL 139 specimens in the possession of the family of William Stevens, whowas a painter at the Bristol factory, were distinguished by thefigure 2. Those marked by the figure 1 are most… … J X 3 25 f ^^4 f ^f x/7 Bristol Marks. Champion when he copied the ware. The figure 1 will also beseen with the Bristol cross both above and below. There is nothingto show whether the cross or the B was first used. Probably thePlymouth mark was adopted in the earliest Bristol period, as ateapot,…
Pottery -- England · Collectors and collecting
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