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BC20 MANSFIELD BROTHERS TILE CATALOGUE, c.1905 £10.00
28 full colour plates in large format plus cover and title page. TIFF format images on CD-ROM.
Mansfield Brothers was established in c.1885 and continued to make a wide range of decorative tiles up to about 1910. This is one of the company’s last catalogues and includes some superb designs of Art Nouveau tiles, several plates showing the interior use of their wall tiles, mainly in Art Nouveau style, some floor tile layouts and a page of mouldings. The catalogue is reproduced on CD ROM in TIFF format enabling the images to be printed out in high definition.
BC21 T & R BOOTE “Boote’s Tiles, 1921” TILE CATALOGUE £10.00
37 plates in large format plus cover, title page and 5pp of prelims. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
T & R Boote were a large scale manufacturers of decorative tiles from the 1850s to 1968. This catalogue form 1921 is a fascinating insight into their tile production shortly after WW1, when manufacturers in general were scaling down their production. Features soma fabulous late Art Nouveau tiles, panels and schemes for shops and homes, as well as several pages of geometric and encaustic floor designs - interesting that they were still making such tiles this late!
BC22 PACKARD AND ORD “Marlborough Tiles” 1951 TILE CATALOGUE £10.00
39 plates plus 4 covers and 8pp supplement listing series, tea tray titles etc. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
This is one of the best preserved and earliest available Packard and Ord Catalogues, listing and illustrating all their tile series. The images are a bit blurred due to rather poor printing of the original, but this is an essential guide to the company’s early hand-painted output. Many series have the designer’s name appended making this an invaluable resource for collectors of their colourful tiles.
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BC23 MALKIN EDGE & CO, Patent Encaustic Tile Works, Burslem, c1899 £10.00
13 plates of encaustic and geometric designs, 6 plates of wall tiles, moulded, printed, encaustic etc. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
A wonderful array of geometric pavement designs plus a great collection of turn-of-the-century wall tiles, hearths etc.
BC24 “BELL” GOLD MEDAL FAIENCE & TILE FIREPLACES, c1932 £10.00
24 Colour plates, 23pp in b & w + 16pp mainly colour retail insert. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
Wonderfully styled Art Deco fireplaces, a number of which feature the de Porcelyane Fles tiles which Bells imported at the time.
BC25 MALKIN FIREPLACES, c1928 £10.00
Folder with 8 loose plates of fireplaces + 8pp retail brochure, all in full colour. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
Another colourful catalogue of tiled surrounds, many incorporating fabulous lustre tiles.
BC26 DEVON TILES FOR WALL TILING (Candy & Co), List No 26, 1933 £10.00
5 colour plates, 7 b & w, + 1933 price list. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
Colourful tiled rooms and a selection of tube-lined Art Deco designs
BC27 MAW & CO, c1880 £10.00
A selection of plates from a c1880 catalogue: 17 colour plates of wall tiles, dados and fireplaces etc. 1 b & w plate
Not a complete catalogue, but selected plates from this classic catalogue. Superb colour and designs.
BC28 T & R BOOTE Tile Catalogue, 1894 £10.00
23 plates of geometric & encaustic floors, 7 plates of dado and other wall designs. TIFF & JPG format images on CD-ROM.
A lovely catalogue of the period.