Customised Crockery - "Busselton Tea Rooms"
Four customised pieces of crockery -
Item 1 one dinner plate: round white plate, with black and brown pinstripe around edge. Wording "Busselton Tea Rooms" inside wreath. c1946
Item 2 one jug: white coloured jug, with black and brown pinstripe around rim. Wording "Busselton Tea Rooms" inside wreath. c1920
Item 3 two saucer plates: round white saucers, with black and brown pinstripe around rim. Wording "Busselton Tea Rooms" inside wreath.
Gibsons & Paterson Ltd was a major historical distributor and agent for English hotel ware and china, particularly for Grindley Hotel Ware (Duraline) in Australia and New Zealand during the mid-20th century - they primarily supplied restaurants, railways, and hotels.
Details
Details
Plate backstamp: "Duraline"
Super
Vitrified
Grindley
Hotelware Co.
England
Gibson & Paterson Pty Ltd
Sydney
2-49
Jug backstamp:
Furnivals
(1913) Ltd.
England
Manufactured for
Gibsons & Patterson Ltd
Made in England
Creamer: (no markings)
Originally situated in the first southern block of Queen Street, the Tea Rooms were there until the 1960s.
1932 : Mrs E Wilkinson (Proprietress)
1948 July 14th : R J Thom
(Reference: information taken from Newspaper adverts and shop receipts
