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2022/17
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A pottery jug inscribed 'Festival of Britain 1951 Bideford Trades Exhibition'. The base is stamped 'Fen handmade England'.
Small pottery jug inscribed 'Festival of Britain 1951 Bideford Trades Exhibition'. The base is stamped 'Fen handmade England'. Fen Pottery were based in Huntingdon, Cambridge operating the 1930s and 1950s. Bideford's Festival of Britain celebrations included a Trades Exhibition, which this jug commemorates.
Physical description
1 jug: pottery
Archival history
Letter, seller to MERL, 18 May 2020 - 'Please find enclosed the scarce 1951 Festival of Britain Bideford Trades Exhibition Fen made china jug you purchased from my E-Bay shop.'
Production place
Huntingdon
Production date
1950 - 1951
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