Description:While pottery manufacturers could agree on a standard list of prices for their wares, the cost of packaging was less predictable.
In this agreement, local manufacturers complain of the "loss and detriment" to their businesses, suffered as a result of the rising price of straw.
They agree on a common course of action to ensure a level playing field for all:
"...that for every crate of ware we shall pack from and after the 14th day of October ... to charge the same price for straw for packing each crate, as the crate itself costs without the cover."
The signatories include:
Henshall, Williamson and Clowes
Edward Bourne
James Brindley
James Birch
Anthony Keeling and Sons
Joseph Smith
William Adams
Samuel and Thomas Cartlich
Caleb Cole
Thomas Goodwin
Josiah Wedgwood
John Harrison
John Booth and Sons
Samuel Spode
Ambrose Smith
John Robinson and Sons
John Wood
Wood and Caldwell
William Dawson
Jacob Warburton
Thomas Wedgwood
John Gilbert
Lewis Heath
Timothy and John Lockett
William Bedson
Ralph Wood
Thomas Holland
Josiah Spode
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Forrester
Anne Martin
Theophilus Smith
Robert Garner
Forrester and Harvey
John Blackwell
Ellen Pratt
About this Document
This document was collected by local industrialist Enoch Wood and is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.