Topic: Maws & Co

[Tigerchips]

1) I'm not 100% sure if these two Snow White dwarf toothbrush holders were made by Maws & Co, the tile company? It says in one of the Millers collectable books that these were made by 'Mores'. I think they mean't  'Maw's' though.

2) Maw & Co Peacock tile picture (1970's)

[Lustrousstone]

What does it say on the toothbrush holders?

See here  http://www.decorativeart.co.uk/coukcatind19.htm and here http://www.rubylane.com/shops/squirrelsnest/item/60319001

I think Maw of London was a chemist's wholesaler, there's ear syringes, cameras, etc.

Found it http://www.psa.org.au/site.php?id=1275

[Tigerchips]

I see, so the family also made tiles, and they are now called 'Tommee Tippee'. 

[Lustrousstone]

I don't think Maw made anything - I think they just commissioned stuff, possibly to their own designs. I would guess your vertically challenged chappies were made in Japan by looking at them - did you see those prices! I would guess at either Germany or England for your tiles

[Tigerchips]

Maw & co was definetly an English tile company and I presumed they made there own as they were base in Staffordshire.

I presumed the foreign marks were for Disney, not Maw's?

I sold these two on ebay for ?21 and ?41 two years ago with some slight damage to the paint.

[josordoni]

Here are some more Maws tiles
http://www.derbycity.com/michael/fac-5.html

and here is a site with some info on the factory -
http://www.mawscraftcentre.co.uk/pages/history.asp

Maws did some glorious tiles - this pictorial is very like the Mintons ones in the tile thread...

http://www.tile-heaven.co.uk/lg-images-txt/01414.htm

[Lustrousstone]

Ooops, didn't read far enough down the Australian article where it tells you all about the tile making and the other manufacturing businesses. I still think the dwarves were probably made in Japan, the foreign referred to the country of manufacture, not where the the copyright license belonged

[josordoni]

yes, so do I.

Mind you they were licensed all over the place.  I have recently had a set made by Schmidt in the US, and another unmarked other than the Disney copyright similar to the toothbrush holders.  Goebel in Germany made a lot of Disney items in the 1950s too.