Collecting usually begins with the allure of an object which catches the eye. We usually refer to such objects as eye candy. For the beginning collector, items are purchased because they are pleasing to the eye.
Historical Staffordshire refers to a special kind of transferware that was produced in the Staffordshire District of England as early as 1790 by one of the early fathers of British pottery production, namely Enoch Wood.
The history of Noritake started with the Morimura brothers, Baron Ichizaemon Morimura and his younger brother Yutaka Morimura who established a trading company Morimura-kumi in Ginza in 1876.
