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

• Pattern:  Vintage Bread & Butter Plate, Meakin Ironstone Concorde Pattern, Blue & Green Bird Plate, Set of 5 Meakin Plates, English Ironstone, (Discontinued)
• Made in England 
• Vintage 1960's
• Details:  This beautiful set of 5 bread & butter plates from Alfred Meakin.  They have a very intricate circular pattern: 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 pieces.  If you are collecting this pattern, we hope this is a happy find.  
• 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.