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An important Royal Worcester presentation album for Ethel Jones, gifted in 1906 image 1
An important Royal Worcester presentation album for Ethel Jones, gifted in 1906 image 2
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Lot 320

An important Royal Worcester presentation album for Ethel Jones, gifted in 1906

Fine Glass and British Ceramics
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An important Royal Worcester presentation album for Ethel Jones, gifted in 1906

Containing watercolours, drawings and printed 'pulls' from engraved plates, each of seventeen pages decorated by a senior member of the painting, gilding and printing department at the Worcester porcelain factory, the book created to celebrate Ethel Jones's forty years long service, with a tooled leather cover and illuminated title page for 'Ethel', the paintings of varying size mounted on leaves up to a full image size of 24cm x 30cm

Footnotes

The following artists are represented

Charley Baldwyn
Percy Burgess (foreman engraver)
Fred Chivers
George Cole
Harry Davis
Robert Derbyshire
William Hale
George Johnson
F Parker
Ernest Phillips
William Ricketts
Frank Roberts
A Rogers (an engraver)
Richard Sebright
Harry Stinton
James Stinton
John Stinton

Little is known about Ethel Jones who was presented with this autograph book. Factory records show that she was presented with a second book in 1912 for 46 years 'long service', although at that time she had already retired. This indicates that the present lot, which is dated 1906 was given to mark 40 years at the factory. It is possible that Ethel worked as a printer and may have overseen the printing department. The job of applying paper prints to porcelain was a skilled task traditionally carried out by women. She was certainly held in high esteem by her work colleagues to receive two autograph books for long service.

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