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Lamp base (detail)

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made at Portobello

Lamp base (detail)
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This detail shows the mark of Buchan's Pottery in Portobello in Midlothian. It is on the base of a stoneware lamp base made between around 1940 and 1960.

The impressed mark is in the form of a thistle and includes the text 'BUCHAN/PORTOBELLO/SCOTLAND'.

The area around Prestonpans, Prestongrange, West Pans, Musselburgh and Portobello remained a significant centre of pottery manufacture until the 1930s. However, the economic crisis of the inter-war years virtually destroyed the industry.

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