Cauldon pottery by appointment

[mipth]

when did cauldon pottery make the caviar jars for fortnum mason by appointment to the king? which king. mark underneath cauldon england in blue impressed 3? nothing else many thanks

[Buenchico]

Cauldon obtained their Royal Warrant in 1924. They could then advertise the company as 'By Appointment to HRH George V.

The company's name was changed to 'Royal Cauldon', to reflect the attainment of the warrant, in 1930 (which was still during the reign of George V). So a piece with the Royal Warrant, but without the word 'Royal', can be dated to between 1924 and 1930.

The foregoing assumes that the words 'by appointment to the King', on the jar, refer to the pottery and not to Fortnum and Mason. Somewhat surprisingly, however, it seems that Fortnum's has never held a Warrant from a king:
http://www.fortnumand...m/royal-warrants.aspx
So it seems that my dating of the piece to around the second half of the 1920s is likely to be correct.

Chris