Mason Cash

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Mason Cash & Co is a kitchenware brand, with items such as mixing bowls, pudding basins and petware. The ceramics manufacturing company, based in Woodville, Swadlincote, Derbyshire is a part of The Rayware Group. They make (and have made for many years) earthenware mixing bowls and baking ware. Their traditional colours are a white interior glaze with a light brown exterior glaze and a diamond texture on the exterior. This range is known as "yellow ware" or Meashamware, despite not being produced in Measham. The colour comes from the natural colour of the area's clay.

[edit] History

The origins of Mason Cash can be traced back to a pottery already operating at Church Gresley in the early 1800s.^[1] The location was due to a plentiful supply of clay and coal, the raw materials of pottery. The company's products, made from white and cane glazed earthenware, are sometimes known as 'yellow ware' due to the colour of the local clay. The company was run by a series of Master Potters, one of whom was 'Bossy' Mason who took over towards the end of the 19th century. Tom Cash acquired the pottery in 1901 and gave it the name Mason Cash & Co., a name still used when his son incorporated the company in 1941.

[edit] Expansion

During the 1930s and 1940s, Mason Cash expanded their product line to include petware, such as feeding and water bowls for dogs and cats. In December 2001, Mason Cash purchased T. G. Green, and worked to revive that pottery's Cornish Blue kitchenware line.

The Tabletop Company purchased Mason Cash in April 2004,^[1] thus forming The Tabletop Group.

In 2007, The Rayware Group acquired the Mason Cash brand, to continue its growth and development across its kitchenware and petware areas.

As of June 1, 2009, Pacific Merchants owns the exclusive import rights to the Mason Cash line in the continental United States.

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