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Some of you have asked: ‘When will you write about Minton?’ We all know Minton from its fame in the late 19th and 20th centuries. But few people know about this great factory’s humble stop-and-start beginnings.
It all began with earthenware. As a boy, Thomas Minton had been apprenticed at the Caughley factory in the 1770s, where he learned to engrave the plates for their famous blue-and-white transferware. He turned out to be extremely talented, and soon set up his own studio, engraving
