1950’s Vintage Solian Ware Belle Fiore Dinner Plate – Simpsons Potters Ltd. Art & Craft Height of grinder: 13 cm

Height of grinder: 13 cm

when the firm used the W&B mark

The tray is impressed underneath with a cursive capital A

Width of handle top: 3

1950’s Vintage Solian Ware Belle Fiore Dinner Plate – Simpsons Potters Ltd. Art & Craft Height of grinder: 13 cmSolian Ware was one of the trade names used by Simpsons Potters Ltd, Cobridge during the late 1940s and into the 1950s. The firm originally began manufacturing as Soho Pottery but was renamed Simpsons Pottery Ltd in 1944, owned by brothers Samuel and Thomas Simpson. In 1971 the firm was purchased by the Pfaltzgraff company of York, USA, but in 2004 the Simpsons Pottery was closed permanently by Pfaltzgraff when their tableware range was discontinued.