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Beswick Pottery

The Beswick horse was introduced by John Beswick, founder of the England-based company that specialised in making high-quality pottery items. These Beswick horse models often feature hooves attached to the base for authenticity. What about Beswick pottery as a whole though?

At over 110 years old, John Beswick Pottery is long established in Stoke on Trent, England. They started out producing Beswick ornaments which they proceeded to master over the first 30 years of their existence. Moving on in the 1930s to creating animal ornaments, which started with racehorse ornaments, the business then moved on to comedic figurines of animals in human situations.

Made from porcelain, the Beswick pieces were hand-painted earthenware and are even more sought after today, as they are no longer in production. The company didn’t stop with their gorgeous and beautiful figurines. In 1948 Beswick studios gained the rights to Beatrix Potter, a hugely popular uk bunny rabbit. These Beatrix Potter figurines soon became hugely popular and they started reproducing every character possible from Beswick Jemima Puddle ducks to the obvious Peter Rabbit Figurine.

You can often catch a quality Beswick animal for sale at a boot sale if your good at spotting Beswick pieces. These figurines are usually based on cartoon creatures and are the height associated with animal porcelain figurine style. They cover a large range of themes, mostly animals enco mpassing Beatrix Potter Beswick figurines, cartoon character figurines and of course the superb horse range.

There are these days many grey Beswick rocking horses for sale as very collectible items so get in there quick as they are not made anymore and so will undoubtedly increase in value as will other items now not in production by their original owners.

The Beswick factory was bought out by Royal Doulton in 1972. Fortunately, you may still find numerous unique Beswick figurines available that may be bought through the enthusiastic collector.

Louise Irvine, British Pottery Expert | South Florida Today

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