34025. (souvenir tile) Minot’s Ledge Light House, Massachusetts Bay 1860 by Mintons China Works c.1890’s.
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34025. (souvenir tile) Minot’s Ledge Light House, Massachusetts Bay 1860 by Mintons China Works c.1890’s.
- (souvenir tile) Minot’s Ledge Light House, Massachusetts Bay 1860 by Mintons China Works c.1890’s. Lovely early transfer printed souvenir tiles made for the American market by Mintons China Works c1880s & 1890s. Depicting both the early 1840’s and later 1860 lighthouses on Minot’s Ledge off Cohasset, and “From Kimball’s Cohasset”. 6″ x 6″. Mintons were pottery, porcelain and tile manufacturers, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The factory was founded 1793/6 by Thomas Minton in Stoke-on-Trent, taken over by Herbert Minton in 1836 until the latter’s death in 1858, when the china business was carried on by Colin Minton Campbell, in partnership with Michael Daintry Hollins, who ran the tile business. In 1868 the partnership ended and Campbell continued as Minton’s China Works, also producing tiles, though not encaustic (inlaid) tiles, until 1918 when tile production ceased. From 1873, the name ‘Minton’ was changed to ‘Mintons’ without the apostrophe. In 1968 the firm became part of Royal Doulton tableware group. Tile is quaint, lovely in shades of brown and tan. Marked on back with seal and “WT Mintons China Works Stoke on Trent”. Only a few light chips to edge and a bit of crazing to surface from age. Quite nice and most difficult to find. (VG+). $145.