Photo: Derrick Mills

Crown Dorset pot is a two handled mug, 5½" high with the scandy pattern beneath the motto and two "tadpoles" on the back. The mark is "Collard Poole" and the code numbers 103 N1. Motto:- Success comes not from wishing but by hard work bravely done This is a rare shape and dates from the first years of production 1905-1908.

Teapot set

Photo: Kerry Fisher

Left - Whitbread Ales jug with motto "In summer heat, In winter gales, Naught is so sweet as WHITBREAD ALES" Right - Loving Cup with motto "An if he kissed me dree times or a dozen, What harm wer ir:, Why idden he my cousin". 4" high, marked 112/R Dorset.

Photo: Kerry Fisher

Two Crown Dorset pieces circa 1910. Left - a loving cup with depicting a runaway pig with a motto "Speak not rather than speak ill". The base has an impressed Mosanic mark and the numbers 463 and 31. Right - a jug with first scene depicting a colourful character holding a pig and a basket of eggs. Another scene depicts him with a barrel, presumably full of beer. No motto. Base has 4634 scratched.

Photo: Gary Rook

These pots are all very early circa 1906. The 3½" pinch pot is inscribed Poole 93 N2 with motto "speak not rather than speak ill". The 5" beaker has a large Collard Poole Dorset stamp and is inscribed 20 N2 with William Barrie's verse from Praise 'o Dorset. "Vor Do'set dear, then gie woone cheir. D'ye hear? woone cheir!" The handleless cup has a small Collard Poole Dorset stamp and motto "the cup that cheers".

Crown Dorset tapered vase, 5½" tall with motto "The Mayor of Casterbridge was one surpassed in Energy by None". Photo: Nigel Wildsmith

Photo: Derrick Mills

Crown Dorset vase, 2½" high, marked 2" 3 CROWN DORSET.

		This pattern was developed as a better quality tourist line at the pottery around 1910. The beach scene generally depicts a lone child standing on the beach looking out ot sea. Collard may have been inspired by local artist Edouard van Goethem.
150mm high. No mark. Dark green background. Picture: Nigel Wildsmith