By 1953 the potteries were no longer needed to produce such high amounts of industrial ceramics so they both began to look around for other areas of production to keep them in business, and it is here at this time that we find the first piece’s of Irish Wade pottery pieces as Wade Ulster enters into the field of ornamental giftware.
The ceramic pieces were given their own backstamps to differentiate the pieces from those made in Wade England. The first known backstamp was an ink stamp of an owl in front of a hand and was used from 1950 on their ceramic industrial goods.
From around 1953 Wade used backstamps with the inscription “Irish Porcelain Made in Ireland” with a picture of the shamrock leaf in the centre. These backstamps were of a variety of types including transfer prints, embossed and impressed.
The Irish Wade pottery had a style of its own and produced some very distinctive ceramic pieces which were very different from the pieces being made in the English Wade potteries and were fast becoming known for their tankards and steins which were decorated in beautiful speckled blues, greens and greys.
Probably one of the most famous types of Wade figurines to come from the Wade Ulster pottery is the pixies, leprechauns and lucky fairy folk. From 1956 to 1986 the Irish Wade pottery made many different pieces using baby pixies and large leprechauns. Alongside this the little folk theme continued with other issues:
The lucky fairy folk series was also issued in 1956 and consisted of three pixie type figurines sitting on either a rabbit, or a pig or an acorn!
A series of three more figures were also produced in 1956 in the lucky leprechaun’s series. The first figure was a cobbler, the second holds a crock-o-gold and the third is a tailor. Two other issues of these figures has been made the second was a new version with flesh coloured faces in the 1960’s (originals had brown faces) and the third issue of 1971 where the figurines had a black ink stamp.
Wade Ulster also produced a Shamrock pottery series in 1956, this was a small series consisting of:
- An Irish comical pig – The backs of some of these pigs were painted in black special places of interest.
- A pink elephant – Again on the backs of these comical elephants you will find slogans indicating that you had had too much to drink or places of interest. Some elephants were produced blank.
- Shamrock cottage – These models were sold in different versions of the years with and without place names.
- Pixie dish
- Donkey and cart posy bowl.
In November of 1966 Wade Ulster changed its name to Wade (Ireland) Ltd.
In 1971 the Irish Wade pottery produced their Mourne range; a limited collection of fifteen pieces of household ware with a truly unusual shape and smooth lines. The pieces are decorated in black with a single burnt orange flower motif and leaf imprinting.
Just like the English Wade the Irish Wade pottery has its own property series issued in 1984-1987. the Bally-Whim Irish village was similar to the Whimsey-on-Why English house collection and consisted of eight Irish village houses.
Whimtrays – little butter type dishes with the added decoration of a first or an English whimsy were made by the Irish Wade pottery in 1985. The Whimtrays in this collection were the husky, king penguin, polar bear cub, a duck, a fawn and lastly the trout.
It is quite well known that the Irish wade pottery would help its English Wade friends out when a large order was due. When they did this they sometimes used the “Wade England” backstamps on models. This means that some wade models backstamped “Wade England” actually have Irish origins.
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