Colin and Jills Emporium Chintz

Chintz marks

The New Royal Winton backstamp. Notice the circle around the Royal Winton name.
The 1995 indicates the year that Grimwades re-established itself as Grimwades Ltd.
Some items made between 1995 and 1998 may NOT have the 1995 Year indicator at the bottom of the mark, but ALL have a circle around Royal Winton and say "LTD.", with a period, after the Grimwades name.

Current "general issue" patterns are Florence, Julia, Majestic, Marion, Old Cottage, Richmond, Royalty, Stratford, Summertime, and Welbeck. The majority of the re-issues were produced in 1997 and later

The new Royal Winton Limited Edition backstamp. Current Limited Edition items come in the Florence, Majestic, Summertime, Julia, and Welbeck patterns.

Limited Edition items are numbered.

The New Limited Edition James Kent backstamp. Currently they are re-issuing the patterns Hydrangea, Rosalynde and DuBarry patterns With plans to introduce Apple Blossom some tine in the year 2000. James Kent has also created the new patterns "Lydia" (a black background of Hydrangea) and "Ruth Kent" (a yellow background of Rosalynde).

Older Marks


An early Royal Winton backstamp.	A little later Royal Winton backstamp. The "A" was incorporated after 1943.


Another example of a post-1943 backstamp	Another example of a post-1943 backstamp

Early examples of James Kent backstamps. 3007 and 5008 indicate the pattern number. In this case, Rapture and Florita respectively.

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