Largely eschewing the standard heavily cut wares (John Ruskin, a close associate of the factory pronounced ... drawn here with the market for another 1960s classic, that of Troika pottery, that has ...

While the first 'strike anywhere' matches appeared on the market at the end of the Georgian era (the English chemist John Walker marketed a sulphur-tipped splint called a Congreve as early as 1827) ...