Rington Tea Jar Caddy Maling Ware England Bridges Design Ca.1929

Description

Rington Tea Jar Caddy - Ca 1929
C.T. Maling and Sons Made for Rington Tea Merchants
6 Panel (Hexagon) Shape with Bridges
Vintage Original - See all photos and description
We are listing three different ones of these beautiful Rington tea jars or caddies today.  We have owned these pieces since 1999 and we know the provenance of them as well.  They belonged to an elderly lady who was an antique dealer for years.  When she retired, she had an auction at her shop.  Years later when she went into a nursing home, there was another auction of all the things she had collected for herself and her favorite and best pieces.  These jars were purchased from that auction.  According to our research, these three jars have never been reproduced with the exception of the one with the castle decorations and that was made by Wade Ceramics in 2000 and it has a wide gold trim making it stand out as very different plus it does not have the proper Maling England marks.  You will also note that the beautiful detailing on all of them is the same with a design between and around each panel, top and bottom edges and trim. The inside of the lid has the Rington Tea logo in dark blue. The bottom has the Ringtons LTD Tea Merchants logo with the building detail, Algernon Road, Newcastle on Tyne, Maling Ware.  Each bottom logo is a bit different but with the same information and they are all pictured with their jar.   Each jar will be individually described in the next paragraph but these details pertain to them all.
Bridges Jar:  5½ inches tall.  Each panel has bridges and all are pictured in the photos.
It has wear on the bottom appropriate to the age (1929).
Jar has some crazing on the inside but just one small spot of darkness about the size of the end of a pencil eraser.  No crazing on the outside of the jar.  The lid has two stilt mark flakes on the outside edge and next to one of them is what looks like a tea stain.  On the opposite side of the lid there is a bruise on the edge.  No loss of material and shows up as a darker line.  None of these flaws show up with the lid in place.  Starting with picture two, the panels have these castles:  Royal Tweed Bridge Berwick, High Level Swing Bridges Newcastle, The New Tyne Bridge Newcastle, St Nicholas Cathedral Bridge Newcastle, Transporter Bridge, Wearmouth Bridge Sunderland and on the top of the lid, Tyne Bridges.  Beautiful color and detail!
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