Antique Adams England Lorna Doone Biscuit Barrel Cookie Jar geodesic dome rare in this new condition

rare in this new condition - beautiful quality with detailed embroidery

The velvet is really of a beautiful quality

Sizing: 9” in width across the top and 7 3/8” across the bottom

ceasing to be used by 1840

Antique Adams England Lorna Doone Biscuit Barrel Cookie Jar geodesic dome rare in this new conditionThis is a biscuit barrel or cookie jar made by William Adams & Sons (Potters) of Tunstall and Stoke. It is decorated with an illustrated scene taken from the book Lorna Doone by Richard D Blackmore, first issued in 1869. It is marked on the underside with the Adams backstamp that was used from 1896 until the 1920s what is curious about this stamp is the lack of the word England, which was mandated by law after 1891. The illustrated scene, which