Bread & Butter Plates, Alfred Meakin, Concorde, Set of 5, Vintage

• Pattern:  Vintage Meakin Bread and Butter Plates, Concorde Pattern, Blue & Green Bird
• Made in England by Alfred Meakin
• Vintage 1960's
• Details:  This beautiful set of 5 bread & butter plates from Meakin have a very retro looking circular pattern with blue and green flowers, leaves, and a lovely green bird on a branch.  The cobalt blue and olive green combination plays very well with today's decor.  This is a very hard pattern to find as most owners tend to keep it and pass it on to family.  We like to mix our china patterns and thought this looked very nice matched with a green dinner plate, (we used a Brier Patch plate in the picture) would also look great mixed with cobalt blue.  If you are collecting this pattern, we hope this set gets you closer to your goal.  
• Material:  Ironstone
• Dimensions:  6.25 inches in Diameter
• Condition:  Vintage - Used.  Excellent Condition.  Minor surface scratches acceptable as associated with age/use/wear.  Please review all pictures and make sure you love this item before purchasing, we can't accept returns.  Please remember these are VINTAGE and ANTIQUE items, they are NOT new, every effort has been made to show any scratches, wear and imperfections. 

In 1845 James Meakin manufactured at Newtown Works, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, in the county of Staffordshire.  James had three sons, James, George and Alfred.   James and George founded J & G Meakin (also a well known producer of fine china and ironstone), while in 1874 the other son, Alfred, founded Alfred Meakin at Tunstall, England.   Alfred Meakin died in 1904 and was succeeded by his son Alfred James who died only four years later.  Alfred James' uncle, Robert Johnson, bought the company  for his son Stuart Johnson and it stayed in the Johnson family's hands until 1976 when it became Myott-Meakin before becoming part of the Churchill Group.