Booths was established in 1891 at Tunstall and from 1912 was also active at the Soho and Swan Potteries in Tunstall. The Booths family business in pottery was first began by Thomas Booth during the 1850’s, but the business was only registered as a limited company in 1891. In 1944 Booths acquired Colclough China Ltd and merged with them in 1948 to become Booths & Colclough Ltd. In 1953 the Lawley Group who owned Ridgway and Adderley Ltd acquired control of Booths & Colclough and the name was changed in 1955 to Ridgway Potteries Ltd which in 1964 became part of the Doulton Group.
The Floradora pattern was designed and released by Booths Porcelain in 1912 and discontinued during the 1930’s. The pattern is a stylized one popular with collectors as it displays soft blue, orange and pink flowers with green leaves in abundance on a geometric trellis motif. The popularity of the Floradora pattern has led to Royal Doulton re-releasing it during the 1980’s.
This assembled set consists of the following:
4 Salad/Side plates each decorated in the Floradora pattern and each with a gold trim and mildly scalloped rim.
4 Dessert bowls each decorated in the Floradora pattern and each with gold trim, very mildly scalloped rims as well as embossed gold trim handles.
1 Server bowl decorated in the Floradora pattern and gold trim, a very mildly scalloped rim as well as embossed gold trim handles.
1 Oval serving platter with a scalloped rim, gold trim as well as the verge being gently fluted.
4 Dinner plates each decorated in the Floradora pattern and each with gold trim and very mildly scalloped rim.
The items are stamped underneath Booths Silicon China Floradora as well as impressed.
Some of the items have age related crazing. All of the items have fading of the gold trim. The oval serving platter has a very ugly repair on the rim where the porcelain has chipped off in the past. Aside from crazing, fading of the gold trim and the repair to the serving platter, the items are in very good usable condition.
Salad plate height: 2 cm, Diameter of base: 11 cm, Diameter of rim: 20.4 cm
Dessert bowl height: 3.4 cm, Diameter of base: 6.5 cm, Diameter of rim: 14.5 cm, Handle to handle: 15.2 cm
Server bowl height: 6 cm, Diameter of base: 11 cm, Diameter of rim: 23 cm, Handle to handle: 25 cm
Oval serving platter height: 3.4 cm, Oval base: 22 cm x 15 cm, Length: 34.5 cm, Width: 27.5 cm
Dinner plate height: 2.4 cm, Diameter of base: 12.8 cm, Diameter of rim: 23.4 cm
