EDGE MALKIN AN CO backstamp

hello ive a turreen marked " E.M & CO PARIS " IT HAS THE GREYHOUND TYPE DOG WITH SEMIPORCELAIN ABOVE AND THE LETTER A BELOW. CANT FINDTHIS MARK. ANYBODY ANY IDEAS.THANKS IN AD VANCE

We'd really need photos, but googling EM & Co and the dog trademark threw up this answer from another forum:

There was an Edge Malkin & Company pottery that made items with a dog mark and the "E.M. & Co." logo.

And this page from the potteries website has info about the Edge, Malkin & Co pottery:

http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/367.htm

hiya naomi. ive checked that link. but no mention of paris. and just the letter b underneath the dog stands for burslem

'Paris' might be the name of the pattern, or it might have been made for export to retailers in Paris. Probably the former.

The company seemed to have been quite a large operation, with the mark you describe being used from 1873 until the company went out of business in 1903.

From a 20th century point of view its two potteries became more important later in life with the Newport Pottery being bought by Wilkinsons and used to produce Clarice Cliff and their Middleport pottery being run by Burgess & Leigh, who produced Burleighware.

As with many of the old potteries, the Newport pottery has been pulled down and replaced by flats. However, Middleport, when near closure in 2009, was acquired by the Prince's Regeneration Trust and has been saved from demolition.

thankyou studio-pots. cant find this pattern and its the "a" instead of the "b" thats throwing me. ta

Edge, Malkin & Co and the short lived companies that took over the business before the First World War are not companies that I have come across in the past. Therefore I suspect that they made functional tablewares that have not been of interest to collectors over the years. That will mean that you will be very fortunate to find any reference to patterns produced by this company and even more fortunate to find any images of the work. You never know though.