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Szeiler
& Moorland
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Joseph Szeiler was born in 1924 in south
west Hungary and in 1948, due to the political situation, he left
Budapest and eventually settled in England. He started working in
the pottery industry and a few years later, in 1951 he opened his
own pottery, Studio Szeiler, in Staffordshire. Making his own models
and moulds, he started to produce small earthenware animals and
figurines for which he was to become world famous.
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The business grew and in 1955 Joseph Szeiler opened his Burslem
studio where he continued to make animal figures, with more than
a hundred being produced in a variety of sizes. He also started
to make vases, table ware and money boxes.
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After his death in
1980 his widow ran the pottery until it was taken over and renamed
the Moorland Pottery in the mid-1980's, named after the address
of his Burslem pottery.
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Szeiler piggy banks have a wonderful style and a charm of their
own and are unlike any others. The tiny piggy bank below left is
only 9cms long whilst the one next to him is 11cms long with the
Szeiler mark 74/1. The figure below right is an unusual colouring
and measures 17cms.
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The piggy bank with the orange cheeks below left has a very mixed
pedigree!! It has a Price Bros backstamp and an Arthur
Wood number '2704' . Price Bros merged with Kensington Pottery
to become Price and Kensington
and then became part of the Arthur Wood Group but the most fascinating
point with this piggy bank is that it is a Szeiler mould.
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These two Szeilers are backstamped
F.R.Gray Thelwell Products and Price Bros. respectively.
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Moorland Pottery continued
to produce Szeiler piggy banks, as illustrated by the character
on the left, which is a Szeiler mould, but is backstamped Moorland
Pottery.
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