A Booths and Goode & Co silicon china tea canister, circa 1906-1912, the tapering squared canister with a square collar and small neck decorated with shaped reserves enclosing flowers and exotic birds with gilt embellishments upon a scale blue ground in the manner of early Worcester; with a tin lid; gold stamps for both Booths and good & Co underside. Height 5.71 in.
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Worcester (England), item types