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Monk, Valerie Ringer.

Crown Lynn : a New Zealand icon / Valerie Ringer Monk ; photography, Studio La Gonda. - Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2006. - 167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.

40s the early days -- 50s the wilderness years -- 60s full steam ahead -- 70s levelling off -- 80s the end of a dream -- Collecting Crown Lynn -- Product timeline -- Crown Lynn backstamps.

"In the late 1930s Tom Clark, barely in his early 20s, began making porcelain tiles and electrical fittings alongside his family's brick and pipe works in New Lynn. By 1970 Crown Lynn was the biggest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere, with 500 staff turning out 15 million pieces of china ... each year ... Then in the 1980s changing economic conditions undermined profitability and the factory was shut down in 1989. "Crown Lynn" is enriched by detailed research, including interviews with the late Sir Tom Clark and many other Crown Lynn staff. It has more than 100 photographs of Crown Lynn products, a comprehensive timeline and an illustrated catalogue of backstamps"--Back cover.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007 Finalist. Finalist Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007.

ISBN: 9780143020639

LCCN: 2006497285

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB059576 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013543510 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Clark, Tom, Sir, 1916-2005.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Crown Lynn Potteries.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Porcelain--History--New Zealand--20th century.
Ceramic industries--History--New Zealand--20th century.

LC Class. No.: HD9590.5 / .M66 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 738