Numbered Transferware Patterns of the Hackwood Firms

Dick Henrywood

Relatively few Staffordshire firms seem to have used pattern numbers in any consistent way on their wares. Amongst them were the Hackwood firms of Hanley and Shelton. The sequence of partnerships and approximate dates would appear to be:

Some of the Hackwood patterns remained in use by the succeeding partnerships with amended marks. The pattern numbering sequence seems to have been continued. A selection of the numbered wares are listed and/or illustrated below. This is clearly not a comprehensive list and there must be more examples to be recorded. Contributions from other collectors would be most welcome.

21. Not titled William Hackwood & Son Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		22. Not titled William Hackwood Teawares. Image needed.
26. "Macao" William Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		28. "Convolvulus Border" Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD.
30. "Shamrock" William Hackwood Toy dinner wares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		33. "Acorn & Rose" Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD. .
37. "Maritime" William Hackwood Teawares.		38. "Moses Discovered" William Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
		41. "Blind Fiddler" William Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
42. "Ville" Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". Images needed.		43. "Equestrian" William Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
46. "Swiss" William Hackwood & Son Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". Image needed.		50. "Moselle" William Hackwood & Son Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". The pattern was continued by the Hackwood successors, William & Joseph Harding, who used the same mark but with initials W. & J.H.
52. "Berry" William Hackwood & Son Teawares. A flow-blue sheet pattern. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD" (also known with impressed mark “C & H / LATE / HACKWOOD”).
54. "Sportsman" William Hackwood & Son Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		55. "Rustic" Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Note the odd spacing of the initials in the mark; it may originally have read W.H. & S. and the engraving on the copper plate subsequently modified. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
56. "Rio" William Hackwood & Son Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". .
60. Not titled William Hackwood & Son Teawares. A sheet pattern. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		63. Not titled William Hackwood & Son Teawares. A sheet seaweed pattern. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". .
66. Not titled Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
68. "Windmill" Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		69. Not titled Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".
75. "Linnet" Thomas Hackwood Teawares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".		81. "Lake & Castle" William & Joseph Harding Teawares. Impressed mark "HARDING".

Other Hackwood patterns on which no pattern numbers have been recorded or are not yet known include "Arabian Sketches" (series), "Berry", "British Lakes", "Circassian", "Forest", "Fruit Garden", "Hindoostan", "Indian Scenery" (series), "Marine Flowers", "Oriental Birds", and some untitled designs such as the standard Willow pattern, the common Wild Rose pattern and the popular Institution or Monastery on Hill toy dinner wares, plus some other toy plates.

No Number. "Fruit Garden" Hackwood Dinner wares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD". .

No Number. "Hindoostan" William Hackwood & Son Dinner wares. Impressed mark "HACKWOOD".

With thanks to everyone who has contributed information, and particularly for images included above:

Doreen Bor; Jonathan Dutton; A.J. Hoefnagels; Irene Keim; Gabrielle Ketting; Joost Kisters; Cuno Koopstra; Lenie Piepers; Wytze Stellingwerf; Frans van der Velden; Pierre van der Voort; Mirjam van Harmelen.

Page created 7 February 2021. Last updated 4 January 2025.

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