I am pleased to offer a 5 by 4 inch vintage AE Gray's Pottery trinket box featuring a mermaid, seahorses, and a few other sea creatures. With a verse, it appears to be a souvenir box made for Vancouver Canada.

It is in overall nice condition with just a few lines of clean crazing here and there but does have a small chip on one corner of the lid and a tiny spot of rough glaze on the edge of the lid. Please be sure to look below to see lots of photos and a complete description...


Apparently made for sale in Vancouver Canada, there is a saying on the box.

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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	About 5" by 4" across the top, 1-1/8" high without the lid
Transfer	A deep blue color and very nice with no skips or loss of paint on any of the design
Ground	Very white .
Glaze	Nice and shiny overall with just a few lines of very clean crazing here and there. I could only see it under a very bright light. Along the back edge of the lid there is a very tiny pin-point sized spot of rough glaze. It looks to me like a factory flaw because of some disrupted glaze around it. It is very minor.
Chips/Cracks	As seen in the photo above, there is a small chip on the edge of the lid. Seen mostly from the bottom is barely visible from the top.
Stains	None, except for a very, very little amount of shelf wear on the unglazed bottom foot where it sits.
Use Marks	None, no scratches or other damage
Other Comments	An excellent example of a Gray's Pottery collectible trinket box!

It is fully marked on the bottom with a black Clipper Ship, made in Stoke On Trent, ID Mark. There is also a hand written number which is probably a number assigned to the blank or pattern.

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