Description:A selection of rubber gilding stamps.
Used to apply gold decoration to glazed pottery.
They are all unused apart from one, which is mounted on a handle.
These stamps came in an envelope marked;
W BENNETT & CO (RUBBER STAMPS) LTD,
WATERLOO ROAD,
COBRIDGE, STOKE-ON-TRENT,
TEL S-O-T 23937-8
CRAFTSMEN IN
DECORATIVE AND BACKSTAMPS
FOR POTTERY AND GLASS
PATT NO 1180
QUANTITY 12 DIES.
The stamps were made for John H Aynsley (Commerce Street), Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
These objects are now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.