MACFARLANE & ROBINSON

stamped steel enamelled hollow-ware and sign plates etc..

A look through the catalogue (2)

O.K.  So the start of the colour section is not wonderfully exciting.  There was a limited range of articles (such as these "toilet stands", some pails, plates and jugs)  in light blue and white, but why that colour scheme was chosen and why it was applied to that range of good, is anybody's guess.

There is an even smaller range (this double saucepan and this fry pan, and also a stew pan, a saucepan, a pie dish and a kettle) which is described as "enamelled gray inside, imitation earthenware outside".  That at least reminds us that the chief competitor for many of these products would have been pottery of some sort.

And then we suddenly come across "hospital ware", with various types of bed pan, such as these, instrument trays, instrument boiling pan, spittoons and so on.

There is a whole page of wonderful enamel teapots.  Note that most of them come in assorted colours.  Presumably the retailers just ordered an assortment and put up with what they were sent.

This page includes a spittoon, available in assorted colours, and a muffin dish in white and gold.

There is then a whole page of candlesticks, of a suitable type for lighting your way to bed, with all of the patterns being available in assorted colours.

And two pages of toilet sets which, in the interests of server space and download time, will have to be represented by this floral and florid example.

Then there are even more teapots and these complete tea or coffee sets.  The one on the left is the "Colonial" and the one on the right is the "Imperial".

The catalogue now turns to enamel signs and such like.