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The Ridgway family was one of the important dynasties manufacturing Staffordshire pottery, with a large number of family members and business names, over a period from the 1790s to the late 20th century. In their heyday in the mid-19th century there were several different potteries run by different branches of the family.
The Homemaker range was first produced using the Metro shape created by Ridgway design director Tom Arnold [1] [page needed] (died 2002) and later on the new Cadenza shape. Homemaker was earthenware, transfer printed with a glaze applied on top, which enabled it to be produced relatively cheaply and to appeal to a mass market. Production of the ...
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A coin issued by Gaius Caesar - also known as Caligula - decorated with a portrait of the Empress Agrippina and dated to A.D. 37-38 sold for about $9,295, according to the BBC.Another coin, issued ...
Its success enabled Ridgway to repay his creditors. A Ridgway representative was among importers who met at the London Tavern in March 1851 to condemn the high price and the adulteration of coffee sold to "the lower class of consumer". Ridgways became one of the first companies to sell tea hygienically pre-packed as a measure against adulteration.
The museum contains the largest public display of Lotus Ware, an award-winning fine porcelain ware produced only for a short period in the 1890s by the Knowles, Taylor, Knowles pottery of East Liverpool. [4] Also on display are collections of early Rockingham Pottery, ironstone, whiteware, yellow ware, and Victorian majolica.
A couple has been arrested after authorities say they performed a botched circumcision on their son at their central Missouri home last week.. Prosecutors charged Tyler Wade Gibson, 35, with one ...
The Ridgway Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Ridgway in Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [ 1 ]