Walter Moorcroft Orchid on Dark Blue Ground ball vase | Shape 41/4 Blue Children he won a competition to

he won a competition to design the first decimal coinage for Australia

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Moorcroft Buttercup vase

230 designs for items of furniture and 20 stained glass panels and windows

Walter Moorcroft Orchid on Dark Blue Ground ball vase | Shape 41/4 Blue Children he won a competition toWalter Moorcroft Orchid on Dark Blue Ground ball vase Shape 41 4 The rich, iconic Moorcroft Blue background gives the delicate and colourful Orchid pattern a chance to shine and show the full palette of colours. The Orchid pattern was first drawn by William Moorcroft c. 1937 and developed by Walter from the mid 1940s [pg 142, Moorcroft Revised Edition 1897 1993, Atterbury] Impressed factory marks to base and original paper label c. 1950s Approx 10.