The first Wedgwood China marks were impressed directly into the surface of the Wedgwood porcelain in the late 1750's using movable type from a printer. Since the individual letters often got twisted at odd angles, the 1760's found Wedgwood porcelain marks impressed into the china from a single iron mould.
Wedgwood china, an English bone china or stoneware, originally was unmarked. The early Wedgwood markings were a simple representation of the name only. Later in the Eighteenth Century, there was a "Wedgewood and Bentley" mark and some of the first marks that included graphics, such as a crown. The word "Etruria" appears on some.
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"Wedgwood and Co" markings are generally not considered genuine Wedgwood. They stem not from Josiah Wedgwood, but rather Enoch Wedgwood. The same stamp is attributed to the Knottingley Pottery at the end of The Eighteenth Century.
Later Wedgwood markings appear as kiln-fired underglaze, up until the present day. The early Nineteeth Century features the full name of Josiah Wedgwood in some instances. Most now have a graphical representation of such things as a vase.
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