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Author Topic: The D?mler & Breiden and Dee Cee Mystery - ID = Desmond Cooper (wholesaler)  (Read 9455 times)

Offline Sue C

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I have picked up a few pieces marked DEE CEE, but not marked foreign, let me have a think, because i have looked at this before...
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2007, 06:35:15 AM »
Hi

I found this little snippit.

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The stamp "DEE CEE" stands for Desmond Cooper,
a Birmingham wholesaler who distributed a variety of different pottery,
including Dragon Pottery, Sylvac, Hartrox Stoneware, Individual Pottery, and Hillstonia.

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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 04:34:56 PM »
This explains why so much of my stuff here in B'ham has Dee Cee on it!! Thanks!!

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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 04:51:32 PM »
I have also seen Dee Cee on some things down here but have always left them alone as Not to sure where they came from. Might have annother look for them now.

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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 06:46:58 PM »
I just went and had a look at some of my pots and i've found a 'Dee Cee' inscribed with 'foreign' onto a flat based, red clay 216/12. it looks like a D&B but red clay?Any ideas anyone?

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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2008, 08:17:41 PM »
Here's a whole selection of Dee Cee marks on Hartley's Hartrox English stoneware http://www.woodward8.freeserve.co.uk/hartrox.htm and another http://www.thrownclay.co.uk/hartrox.htm
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2008, 08:43:16 PM »
I am sure Frank once mentioned that he had catalogues for Hillstonier, if so he may have some information about imports to Dee Cee.
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2008, 08:58:03 PM »
I think your Welsh border company was probably the Dragon Pottery. It seems quite a lot of their stuff was marked Dee Cee too. They've also been around since 1962. This book might clear up the mystery if anyone has it. See review

You had Della  :kissy: I was just showing the variety of marks
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Re: The D?mler & Breiden and Dee Cee Mystery
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2008, 05:30:34 PM »
Is this topic the remnants of another, earlier discussion?

I've always thought of Dee Cee as reseller of D&B pots.
I think the attached illustrate it quite well.

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Re: The D?mler & Breiden and Dee Cee Mystery
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2008, 05:59:12 PM »
I think Dee Cee sold all sorts of everything - a bit like G Hardy and L Jones & Co in glass

This is one of those topics that fell apart when some board members left. Thanks for adding the D&B examples
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Re: The D?mler & Breiden and Dee Cee Mystery
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2015, 02:44:07 AM »
Wakefield Museum collection has some examples of Dee Cee marked pottery, theirs are made by Hartley's.  Stoneware jug  Small dish
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