In my own possession is a design, in pencil, by Mr. Duesbury, by his own hand, for a mark, which I engrave on Fig. 84, although I believe it was never adopted. At all events I have failed in discovering a single specimen so marked. Mrs. Palliser, however, engraves a mark as occurring on a cup and saucer, which somewhat assimilates to it. She also gives, from a specimen in her own possession, the word _Derby_ in writing letters. This, she states, occurs “in black on a biscuit statuette;” but I fear the mark has been added at a later date. Another mark, which has been described to me, but of which I have not seen an example, is very similar to Fig. 84, but has the cross daggers and crown added, with the encircling words “DUESBURY, DERBY,” Fig. 85. It may be well, _en passant_, to notice a mark which appears on one of the copper-plates of the Caughley works (see Vol. I., p. 273). It is an anchor over the word “Derby.” As the initials RH conjoined also appear along with the anchor and word “Worcester,” and may mean either R. Hancock or Richard Holdship, the probability is they belong to the latter (who was connected with the Derby works), and that the _anchor_ was adopted in allusion to his name, _hold ship_--a very clever and ingenious device. Another variety belonging to Mr. Robinson differs slightly from these. [Illustration: Figs. 84 to 89.] On some services, notably on the royal service, mentioned on page 88, Mr. Bloor had his name painted in full-- [Illustration: _Messrs. Robert Bloor & Co.,_ _34, Old Bond Street_,] on the back of plates, &c. The “Co.” in this instance was Mr. Thomas Courteney, the London agent, through whom the order was procured. His place of business was 34, Old Bond Street, and many of the goods afterwards made for him bore the accompanying mark, Fig. 91. Messrs. Locker & Co., at the modern King Street works, used the mark, Fig. 92, and their successors, Stevenson, Sharp, and Co., the next one. The next firm, Stevenson and Hancock, used, in accordance with my suggestion, and a sketch I made for them, in 1862, the old Derby mark of the crown, crossed daggers, dots, and letter [Illustration: _D_], with the initials of the firm S. H. (for Stevenson and Hancock); this is still continued by the present sole proprietor, Sampson Hancock--the letters S. H. being, fortunately, his own initials. [Illustration: Figs. 91 to 94.] Of the artists employed at the Derby China Works, the principal modellers appear to have been Spengler, Stephan, Coffee, Complin, Hartenberg, Duvivier, Webber, and Dear, and many others, including Bacon the sculptor, were employed in London, and the models sent down to the works.