Details held in BT 44/8 Proprietor: David Mc Birney and Robert Williams Armstrong trading under the name of D Mc Birney & Co Address: Belleek Pottery, County Fermanagh Subject of design: Trinket-box & Cover
Annotation (BT 43/68) DESIGN FOR A TRINKET BOX AND COVER BELLEEK POTTERY FERMANAGH NOV 10TH [crossed through and substituted with] 12TH 1869. DAVID Mc BIRNEY & ROBERT WILLIAMS ARMSTRONG TRADING AS D Mc BIRNEY & Co. IV.
Notes
The factory title for this design, 'Jack-at-Sea', comes from an article by MD Reynolds on 'Early Belleek Designs' in the Irish Art Review, Vol. 1 No. 3 1984. See Richard K Degenhardt, Belleek, The Complete Collector's Guide and Illustrated Reference, (2nd edition),Wallace-Homestead Book Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA, 1993.