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1801.A VERY RARE SPODE BILLHEAD. SIGNED BY Wm. COPELAND
COPELAND WAS SPODE'S PARTNER. LATERLY SPODE/COPELAND Co
1801.
A postally used printed billhed, 9" x 7".
A bit crumpled, but otherwise very fine and clean, for its great age and rarity.
A footnote personally signed W, Copeland
William Copeland was a senior partner along with Josiah Spode.
Copeland eventually took over the business, which went onto become Spode and Copeland etc., etc.
In 1784 William Copeland went to work for Josiah Spode in London becoming an equal partner in 1797 and sole administrator in 1812. His son William Taylor Copeland ( Lord Mayor of London 1835-36) became a partner in 1824 and sole owner in 1833 of both the factory and London businesses.
The firm remained in the Copeland family until 1966. The Spode brand name was used alongside the Copeland name throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, often styled 'Copeland late Spode'.
In 1970 to commemorate the founder the name was changed to Spode.
This is a howlingly rare piece of social history.
Written in the hand of William Copeland, and personally and clearly signed at the bottom by him.
A TRUE MUSEUM PIECE!
From one of the worlds great pottery dynasties.
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