Antique Hatpin Holder Hand-painted "Torquay Devon Motto-ware" Excellent Example

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Antique Hatpin Holder
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Antique Hatpin Holder Hand-painted "Torquay Devon Motto-ware" Excellent Example
"Keep me on the Dressing Table" motto.
No cracks or chips, normal wear.
Torquay ware refers to pottery made in
Torquay
, Devon, England, using local clay, at one of fifteen or so local potteries chiefly serving the tourist trade, but also supplying high-end retailers such as Liberty of London.
The commonest form was motto-ware - pottery such as plates or jugs decorated with inspirational or humorous text,
often written in a Devon dialect,
and thus known as Devon motto-ware.
Some items were produced in Cornish dialect, for "export" to, and sale in, Cornwall.
Novelty items with no functional use were also produced, but are rarer.
This hatpin holder would look really cool filled with rooster and hen hatpins.
Similar holders in Lillian Baker's book.
Date:  early 1900s.
Marked: Longpark Torquay 294HL.
Height: 4 5/8"  Base:  3 1/2".   Nine holes.
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