Toni Raymond & Babbacombe Pottery

Best to keep an eye on completed listings on eBay. That's where I always search for these types of items.

Thanks, I'll have a look

I couldn't say either way

Thanks anyway, couldn't find the design anywhere and still can't. Still hopeful though   

Good evening pot sages. This one winked at me from afar. Might be because it is so ‘tidy’. Any help very much appreciated. I don’t think it’s spectacular but i am intrigued that it is a numbered edition.

I think it's one of the Torquay potteries. Just a shape/pattern number.

Babbacombe?

A pretty good close match is Babbacombe pottery, 1950s.

Normally not very well stamped as you can see here

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t10924-toni-raymond-babbacombe-pottery

One good example in the thread to compare.

https://servimg.com/view/17924564/612

Babbacombe seem to use that blue colour alot! just can't find a pic of one like yours..lots of little black swirly numbers.

Thank you all for your help. It’s useful knowing what to search for when you would like some more...

Hi there everyone. Just came across this little beauty and am drawing a blank to identify. Hope you can help...

Measures 10cm tall and 15cm across the top.

Thanks as ever,

David

looks like Babbacombe, often not well stamped.

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t10924-toni-raymond-babbacombe-pottery

Thank you so much. Any idea on the creator ?)

There is not much info on Babbacombe pottery itself.

Thanks and you're right about that but I found the names Edwin Barrett and Peter Priddoe and saw the same shape without this swirling pattern. This is way more than I knew in the first place and thanks for your help to get me this far.
David

Some salient info from a 2000 magazine article I had stashed away.

The Toni Raymond pottery was established in 1951 by Raymond Smith, initially making
models of snow geese, mallards and seagulls from Barbola, which doesn't
require firing, and later miniature heads.
Geoff Hiscock and wife Barbara from Manchester formed a buisness
partnership around 1954.
Other early products were ceramic earrings and bracelets, and with the
success of these they were able to purchase a kiln.
In the early 50s it had only 2 employees, Leo Scragg, and Sam Dale, a
potteries-trained mould maker, but by the 1960s and early 70s it
employed around 80 people at 3 different sites:

Torbay, Bath lane.

Babbacombe pottery (purchased in 1967).

Wellhouse pottery.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t592-wellhouse-pottery-paignton-devon

The pottery was sold in 1977/8, and some years later was bought by Ray's son Philip Laureston.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t9274-philip-laureston-lauri-ana-lauriana-studio-pottery

I'm guessing the Terracotta vases in this thread were made well before it was bought by the Toni Raymond pottery in 1967.

Slipware vase, 16cm tall. Unglazed base, incised with the words "hand thrown", and faintly stamped with a mark, which may, surprisingly perhaps,  include the word "TORQUAY".

Looks like Babbacombe, with the usual feint mark!

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t10924p25-toni-raymond-babbacombe-pottery

Thanks, I think you're right. I didn't realise they had "Torquay" in the mark.

From the Torquay Pottery Collecters website I'd imagine this was from c.1962.