Royal Winton - Pattern Identification Help Needed

By GarnetEmbers, 1 February, 2013
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Spent several days looking for a Royal Winton Grimwades china pattern but have not been able to identify it. Hoping you can help!

I have a small breakfast set - the tray, a two-piece toast rack, and a small open sugar bowl. Would like to know the pattern name!

Please see attached for photos of the small Royal Winton Grimwades breakfast set. It is missing two items - perhaps a creamer and a cup. Have not been able to find another small breakfast set with the exact the same pattern - or a complete five-piece breakfast set (for that matter) by Royal Winton to see what is missing. Any info would be appreciated!

The gold Royal Winton back stamp on this set, from what I have gathered, indicates that the set was made between 1935 - 1945. This particular Royal Winton porcelain mark does not have a "A" on it - having an "A" on the mark is said to indicate items made during WWII. Please let me know if this is not the case for this particular china mark.

All three pieces - the five-piece tray, the toast rack, and the small open sugar are from the same set, with the exact same porcelain mark in gold. The hand-painted kiln-cured number of 6106 (or 9019 if held the other way) is on all three pieces as well - which may have been done by the artist. It was suggested that perhaps this hand-painted number was the pattern number - but I believe that it may be an artist's identification number. Again, please let me know the scoop on hand-painted numbers on the backs of Royal Winton porcelain.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide to identify this pretty porcelain pattern!

Category
Ceramics and Porcelains
Medium
Porcelain, China
Distinguishing marks
Royal Winton china mark, hand painted numerals of 6106 in red kiln-cured enamel.
Condition
Excellent
Date Period
Prior to WWII.
History
Some crazing due to it's age - but no chips or cracks on any of the pieces of the set.
eBay Auction Link
For Sale?
Yes
Photos

GarnetEmbers

11 years 8 months ago

It's been over eight months since I asked for info on the Royal Winton breakfast tray pattern I posted - I took many photos as suggested, but did not get an appraisal nor have I had any contact from a single Porcelain Appraiser, or anyone who knows the Royal Winton line for that matter.

Is there anyone out there that has experience with Royal Winton china patterns? I have been very patient, but have already waited 8 months. I understood this was where the porcelain experts are found, but have been proven wrong.

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Any request posted usually only sits on the main page for a day, then is replaced by others. If no one sees the request or responds to it it quickly moves off the list. In regards to this set, Royal Winton produced a huge number of patterns, not all of them have names, some just have pattern numbers. I'm not familiar with this one, but check over here, they list most of them with images http://www.replacements.com/china/RWI.htm

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Hi Lovejoy,

Yes, prior to posting my question to the porcelain experts here, I went through every single pattern at the Replacements site including non-Royal Winton just for the sake of doing so, but I could not find the pattern. The site needs to be updated with a decent search engine and better/larger images for searching as it's such a time consumer. Maybe it's more accurate for searching out other porcelain manufacturers patterns, but not for Royal Winton. Too bad they haven't kept the site current.

I realize that not all of the Royal Winton patterns have names, but how do they indentify them then? Are they numbered? Surely there has to be a definitive guide that shows Royal Winton patterns and what they are called or referred to, or how could consumers order new ones or replacements? Is there a Royal Winton resource out there - book or website or knowledgable person - which you might know of? Still don't have a clue what to call this pattern and would really like to know.

Recently found a pattern match on eBay where a person is selling the exact same patterned teapot, but they have the pattern listed as "Ascot" which must be the style/shape of china rather than the pattern. The pat. number of "301202" was listed on the under rim of the tea pot lid, but again, this seems to be a generic number and not specific to the actual pattern. And the name "Ascot" is embossed under the glaze in the teapot, but doing a search for Royal Winton "Ascot" turns up hundreds of hits - all with different patterns.

Interestingly enough, there's also a hand-painted "6106" or "9019" on the teapot  this person has currently listed in eBay, which is also found on all three of my pieces, along with the little gold leaf shaped insignia as seen in the photo. I am thinking this four numeral code and insignia must identify the porcelain artist who did the final hand-painting as they are identical in penmanship.

Please let me know if there are any other avenues or can refer a reference book to check for Royal Winton patterns.

Thanks for your help!

 

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