Bronze and Ceramic parrot candlesticks Possibly By 'H & W' aka Hancock and Whittingham

by Reina Teeger
(Port Wash. NY. USA)

Bronze and Ceramic parrot candlesticks Possibly By 'H & W' aka Hancock and Whittingham:- Bronze and Ceramic parrot candlesticks. These have the marks on the ceramic underside of a crown above crossed swords or scepters, the letter H (or could be a horse) to the left and W to the right and the number A866 below. The bronze also has the same mark stamped on the bronze although there is looks more like 1866 for the number.

I can't find a maker with the initials HW. Any suggestions?

Reina Teeger

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Reply by Peter (admin)

to Bronze and Ceramic parrot candlesticks Possibly By 'H & W' aka Hancock and Whittingham

Dear Reina

You may need an expert, here's why:

Not a well known mark. It is the worse possible combination of marks to identify on a smaller lesser known maker. Crown marks run in their thousands as do crossed swords and sceptres (homage to Meissen, the original originals). A letter you can't identify doesn't help and if it was an H - this letter is one of the most common letters of the alphabet for makers names.

No pressure then!

Here's what I dug up:-

There is a small H & W entry in Goddens for a short lived maker called Hancock and Whittingham of the Bridge works Stoke (1863 - 1879) who made earthenwares and had various grand devices on their pottery marks of which only one example is shown (not the crown & swords you describe).

The wares are extremely rare and I found only one item for sale on Ebay - a jug with a buy-it-now price of $125 USD See example above). Hopefully, you wares are, in fact, 'H & W' - Hancock and Whittingham!

H & W did a lot of mixing of material. Normally pewter and earthenware (not bronze). They sourced their pewter from Stoke makers T. Booth, a pewterer in Hanley, another town in the same district of England.

Sounds like them, doesn't it?

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Hope this helps and happy antiquing!

Peter (admin)

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