J. T. Cope and Co
1886 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, John Thompson Cope and Albert Francis Wenger, under the firm of J. T. Cope and Co., at St. James-street, Hanley, in the county of Stafford, in the trade or business of Earthenware and China Manufacturers and Vendors, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent, and that the business will in future be carried on by the said John Thompson Cope on his own account...'[1]