Vintage W H Grindley Cream Petal Gravy Boat

Title: Vintage W H Grindley Cream Petal Gravy Boat.
Manufactured By: W H Grindley, made in England.
Height: 11 cm.
Width: 18 cm.
Depth: 8 cm.
Info: Cream Petal pattern gravy boat from the Grindley factory in Staffordshire.
The Sailing Ship stamp on the base was in use from 1936 to 1954. A very pretty pink rose floral pattern with different coloured leaves.
Grindley was an Earthenware manufacturer at the Newfield Pottery and then the Woodfield Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.   
The company was founded at the Newfield Pottery in 1880 by William Harry Grindley (principle partner) and Mr Turner.
They produced Earthenware and Ironstone China - particularly for the Canadian, United States, South American and Australian markets. 
In 1891 the company moved to the Woodfield Pottery, Woodland Street, Tunstall.  
In 1908 Mr Grindley set up The Grindley Hotel Ware Co
In 1960 the business was purchased by Alfred Clough Ltd.
In 1978 renamed Grindley of Stoke (ceramics) Ltd.  
Federated Potteries Co. Ltd. took them over in 1982 and in 1988 the business was re-purchase by W. H. Grindley.
1991 saw the company in the hands of the receivers. and the same year they were taken over by Woodlands Pottery.
Condition: Good, some rubbing on the gold trim.
Price: R 195.00 Inc Vat.