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In 1738 the factory was purchased by a Mr. Flight, who had been the London agent, with his showroom at No. 2 Bread Street, London. He received a Royal patent (whence our term “Royal Worcester”) in 1788, and by 1739 * had taken Martin Barr as a partner. Bar. seems to have managed the factory in Worcester while Flight preterred the London showr room. And so by the lime Martin Barr’s son. Martin Barr, Jr., became a partner in 1807 we find the factory being called Barr, Flight and Barr while the London showroom was usually called Plight,' Ban and Barr.
When Lady Nancy Astor gave the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a pair of Royal Worcester glaciers. or ice cream servers in 1951, she not only gave two most beautiful pieces of Regency porcelain, but she also presented the Museum with a problem of dating its new acquisitions. There is a “B” impressed in the clay on the bottom of each glacier, a mark most fre
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