Retro & Vintage 1970’s Wood & Sons Alpine Ironstone Milk Jug / Creamer – Sherwood Pattern Tableware The toast rack is not

The toast rack is not marked or stamped

The plates are stamped Susie Cooper Production Crown Works Burslem England

Jean-Honore Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker who produced more than 550 paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism

This sugar bowl was manufactured by Simpsons under their Chanticleer trade name and decorated in their Belle Fiore patterning

which consists of the saucer and a teal/ocean blue tea cup

Retro & Vintage 1970’s Wood & Sons Alpine Ironstone Milk Jug / Creamer – Sherwood Pattern Tableware The toast rack is notThe firm was established in 1865 by Absalom Wood and his son Thomas Francis Wood. In 1921 Harry F Wood took over from his father Thomas and the firm became successful. In 1954 the firm became an Ltd. under the name Wood & Sons. During the 1970s the firm fought two unsuccessful takeover bids, one by Barrets in 1975 and the other by Staffordshire Pottery in 1979. The takeover bids weakened the firm financially and in 1981 the bank took control of the