I am pleased to offer a very small vintage Gray's Pottery 3 inch wide pin dish featuring The Olde Jug Inn. The image of an Inn is found on many Gray's shapes. This dish looks like a transfer rather than the more usual hand painted design. and has a copper lustre border. Please see the photos below...


A. E. Gray's Pottery was established in 1912 at Stoke-On-Trent, moved to Handley, and moved back to Stoke and existed from 1934 until 1961 when it was bought by Portmeirion Potteries. Well known for their hand painted items, marked with a sailing ship backstamp, did not manufacture the basic pottery themselves. Blanks were purchased elsewhere and hand painted by Gray's decorators. Lustre wares were a specialty and often seen painted with silver resist, copper, and other lustre finishes.

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Size	Just under 3" across
Paint	Very nice with no cuts and has super color. The copper lustre band on the edge is great without any missing paint or rubs.
Ground	The center is very white. There is a pin head sized are on the back that looks like an off color stilt mark. Very minor!
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None
Use Marks	None, although may have been used.
Other Comments	An excellent example of an Ye Old Jug Inn Gray's Pottery piece!

It is fully marked on the bottom with a black Clipper Ship, made in Stoke On Trent, ID Mark. I have several of these small pin dishes and the two photos below are very similar to the dish in this listing, however, may be slightly different.

There is a hand written pattern number written in green which is A86294.

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