Unusual Large Tiles by Minton Hollins Co. Patent Tile, Stoke-on-trent. | ||
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Posted 3 years ago
ho2cultcha
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i've never seen tiles like this. These are Victorian / Edwardian tiles with a mirror-like silver background. The blue and black are very classy together too. These are large at 8 inches square. on the back says: Minton Hollins Co. Patent Tile, Stoke-on-trent.
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i just spent a long time going thru of minton hollins tiles and couldn't find any like these ones w/ that mirror silver background. They really pop in person!
beautiful tile!!!
Thank you SEAN! i couldn't find any Minton tiles with that very reflective silver on them.
these are 8" tiles, not 6". oops!
ho2cultcha, No joy on finding a twin thus far, but as to the vintage:
Wall tiles, printed, painted, lead glazed majolica etc., bear Minton, Hollins & Co. at least from the 1850s, the address 'Patent Tile Works' was used from c.1869. Use of the Minton & Co. brand on tiles appears to phase out from the late 1850s presumably simply as new equipment was purchased with Minton, Hollins & Co. brand name and equipment with Minton & Co. moulds wore out.
Michael Hollins became a partner in Minton & Co. in 1840 and Colin Campbell in 1849, whilst Hollins managed the tile business Campbell worked in the china business under Herbert Minton and had little to do with the tile business. Upon the death of Herbert Minton in 1858 Michael Hollins became the senior partner and Colin Campbell the junior partner, Arnoux managed the china business under Hollins whilst Campbell was responsible for marketing. When the partnership was dissolved in 1868 the company split in to Minton, Hollins & Co. the tile company and the remaining china and pottery company which apparently continued trading as Minton & Co. until 1873 when it became known as Mintons.
https://www.tileheaven.uk/info/the-mintons.htm
I found a 1905 catalog:
https://archive.org/details/MintonTilesMintonHollinsCo.PatentTileWorksStokeUpon-trent/mode/2up
I didn't see your pattern in there, but that only means that my bleary old eyes didn't notice it.
What they did notice is that Minton-Hollins made street letter/number tiles:
https://archive.org/details/MintonTilesMintonHollinsCo.PatentTileWorksStokeUpon-trent/page/n43/mode/2up
Yeah, could be my newest obsession, huh? };-)