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Two slices wide and entirely charming. A tiny Adams toast rack with a cracked-ice blue transfer ground running over the rectangular base and up both loop dividers, edged with a dark blue geometric border. Breakfast-in-bed scale, doll's-house appeal, and a proper Staffordshire name on the base. SPECS | Approx. 3.5 x 2.75 in. base, 2 in. tall (confirm). White earthenware, rectangular base with two upstanding loop dividers, cracked-ice blue transfer overall with dark blue geometric border. Backstamp: ADAMS / ENGLAND printed in blue. Dating: c.1891-1914; ENGLAND without Made In brackets this mark form. HISTORY | William Adams & Co of Tunstall is one of the oldest names in Staffordshire, potting from 1769 with family roots in the 1650s. The cracked-ice ground was an Aesthetic Movement favourite borrowed from Japanese design and turns up on Adams tea and breakfast wares of the 1880s and 1890s. Miniature toast racks were made for invalid and breakfast trays, for children's services, and as tr