Apollo Crown Lynn Tableware

Crown Lynn Apollo d.140.50 from a 1988 catalogue:

Photos courtesy of HeatherT.


and the backstamp... I'll just make that bigger ...

I picked up an Apollo lidded sugar basin today
It was too cute - hadn't seen that lid before either.
The number from the pic at the top of the page is 0959/1
Must take a pic !

Pic of the Apollo lidded sugar basin.

oooh its a darling too
well done Ev

I picked up a large white Apollo serving bowl and two puds - I think its a highlt under rated pattern n'est pa?

My first set was Apollo, I also had the sugar bowl and lid like the one above, plus S & P. I still have salt but pepper must have got broken, cannot remember what happened to sugarbowl. Rest of set went to first son to leave home who promptly lost/broke most of it, Wish I had kept it now!

Always the way isnt it? the things we should have kept!!

Found this today and it's the 1999th pattern for the Crown Lynn Database
It looks the same as every other plain white Apollo that I've ever seen, but has the number d14050....!
Why would this be? Different clay? A different clear glaze? Any ideas?
It really is white, but camera shows it to be a dirty grey bah humbug!

Hi Ev, I have 7 Apollo B&Bs and I just checked them, they all have the number 14050! They look like any other Apollos I have seen, another mystery! cheers, marl

Only on Apollo side plates do I have that d14050 shown plus the Crown and Crown Lynn New Zealand, printed in black . My sugar sans lid has no number.
Most Apollo pieces have no number , most just say Apollo Genuine New Zealand Ironstone with a scroll design under Apollo in green, as referred to below in Monk.
a few are marked Kelston Potteries or just Genuine Ironstone.
But all are the same design and same size and shape for each type of plate.

I have always thought that the no number pieces are the early Apollo, early 1969 1970 according to Valerie Monk p154 , and the numbered ones are a later production.

We may never know, that is what collecting CL such a joy for me .

Okay.. I have been meaning to post this for a while.
We have in the records
4020 - Side or BB plate -  5" Apollo Fluted plate
4021 - Lunch Plate -  8" Fluted plate Apollo
4022 - Dinner Plate - 10" Fluted plate Apollo

All my Lunch plates measure 9" (and I do have a few) but I have one plate stamped Apollo that measures 8" - I can't figure why the lunch plates 4021 says 8" when all mine measure 9" ?

Unless for some reason they are 9" and that's why 4028 says "actual 8" salad plate"

https://www.newzealandpottery.net/gallery/Crown-Lynn-Shapes-Catalogue-with-Four-Digits/Flatware-4000-4899/4028-91270-pic_6125.htm

Or Have I got lots of 9" plates that I can't find a shape number? Looking at the catalogue image at the top of the thread the 8" plate is the odd one in the set.

very strange?
Dinner 10" - plain white
Lunch 9" - Honeyglow
8" - Apollo
SIde BB Plate - 5" Casbah

I have been wondering if my Apollo bowl is a 4026 shape or another number

It has a genuine ironstone stamp on it and measures 237mm diameter and 70mm high

I still own this Apollo (NZ) dinner set. I think my parents bought it in 1985 and I now have it. The reason I saw this post is that I am fed up with the poor quality of today and so started looking for this brand again for some ‘pasta’ bowls to go with it. Such a hardy dinner set and classic design that was never in or out of fashion.

My bowls are 177mm Diameter x 45mm H. They are imprinted with the number d14050

mumof1 wrote:
I have been wondering if my Apollo bowl is a 4026 shape or another number

It has a genuine ironstone stamp on it and measures 237mm diameter and 70mm high

I have an entire dinner set and all the items have the number d14050 on them. I think they were purchased in 1985 (Brisbane, AUST). They don’t have ironstone stamped on them.

Jonno wrote:Only on Apollo side plates do I have that d14050 shown plus the Crown and Crown Lynn New Zealand, printed in black . My sugar sans lid has no number.
Most Apollo pieces have no number , most just say Apollo Genuine New Zealand Ironstone with a scroll design under Apollo in green, as referred to below in Monk.
a few are marked Kelston Potteries or just Genuine Ironstone.
But all are the same design and same size and shape for each type of plate.

I have always thought that the no number pieces are the early Apollo, early 1969 1970 according to Valerie Monk p154 , and the numbered ones are a later production.

We may never know, that is what collecting CL such a joy for me .

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I have this side plate with a totally different stamp on it
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and this is the stamp on my bowls

Wow I haven't seen that one before :O