Backstamping.

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Date:1950 - 1951 (c.)

Description:Pottery factory interior showing a female worker in the process of backstamping plates.

The backstamp is the pottery maker's mark or logo.

Taken at Alfred Meakin Ltd., Royal Albert Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

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Working Wear Pottery Factories People Manufacturing Industrial Buildings Factory Interiors Costume & Textiles Ceramics Business, Trade & Industry Buildings, Architecture, Monuments

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Image courtesy of: British Pottery Manufacturers Federation

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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