Remember the little Orange pot we bought in the Trocante in Beziers a few days ago ?
Well I got curious about it and had a look at its bottom.
It had a mark.

So, nerd that I am, I started to trawl through the internet, through French pottery mark sites, to see if I could find something about it.

No mark appeared even vaguely like it.

Síle then suggested as it was obviously a Marmalade Pot surely it must be English, the land where Breakfast Marmalade is a religion.

She was right.

There I found the mark , dating the piece at around the 1850’s and if I could read all the letters it could also tell me who made it.

Rather nice to think that one hundred and sixty years ago our little pot was resting by a toast rack somewhere in middle England.