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Welcome to Autumn Leaves Country Kitchen    For list of 275+ Autumn Leaves items - click here List of WANTED items - click here

 

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Welcome to the AUTUMN LEAVES country kitchen collection Autumn Leaves was introduced around 1979 as an exclusive range for Marks & Spencer in the UK. Each year new pieces were added to the range and we aim to illustrate all of them. This may however be almost impossible! As the years passed some items were eliminated, others were available at specific stores for a limited period only. Worse still, for the collector, some pieces were manufactured, but then rejected by Marks & Spencer and disposed of by the manufacturer either at a factory shop or market stall. It may therefore be difficult to compile a definitive list. Requests to Marks & Spencer for further details of the product range, old publicity material, pictures etc. met with a fairly negative response. They did, however have no objection, in principle, to us starting a collectors club. Well, this is it! We began collecting in 1979 and have around 250 different pieces. Apparently M&S had attempted to eliminate the range during the 1980's (hopefully someone can give us further details) but our serious collecting began during the 1991 summer sales when a wide range of ancillary items were discontinued. Apart from two new designs of electric kettle nothing new was introduced after spring 1991. At each summer or winter sale further pruning of the range took place. For a couple of years it was withdrawn from stores and made available by mail order catalogue only. Autumn Leaves country kitchen was finally eliminated in January 1994.    In 1992 we managed to obtain some manufacturers development samples, some of which are unique pieces. However, there must have been more of these development samples in previous years. Do you have any of these? Do you know any more of the history of Autumn Leaves? Who drew the original design? Who has the original designs?
Marks & Spencer were unable to help with locating discontinued pieces and, since they have a secrecy policy regarding identity of manufacturers, it was necessary to undertake some detective work. This was the result.

ITEM	MANUFACTURER	LOCATION (ENGLAND)
General Tableware-Plates, Bowls, Butter Dish, Gravy Boat, Salt&Pepper, Sugar Basin, Jugs .....	Johnson Brothers	Stoke on Trent
Cookware-Flan, Pie Dish (Fluted Sides), Oval Casserole, Oval Dish, Rectangular Dish (Pattern inside both dishes), Shallow Casserole ......	Johnson Brothers	Stoke on Trent
Cookware-Flan, Pie Dish, Deep Round Casserole, Oval Dish, Rectangular Dish (Pattern on external sides of both dishes). Patterns generally shinier/brighter than Johnson Brothers.	T. G. Green (Part of the Cloverleaf Group)	Church Gresley
Melamine-Trays, Chopping Boards, Memo Pad, Toast Rack, Jam Pot, Butter Dish, Cutlery Set.....	Cloverleaf	Swindon
Glassware-Jugs, Tumblers .....	Western House, Crystal & Glass	Basingstoke
Casseroles with Smoked Glass Lid.	Pyrex	-
Storage Jars, Planters, Spaghetti Jars, Utensil Jars, Vases....(Originally Shiny Glaze-Later Matt Glaze)	Hornsea Pottery	Hornsea (Want to know more about Hornsea Pottery?) Visit: www.hornseacollector.co.uk
Canisters, Bread Bin, Food Warmer, Pedal Bin, Gadget Set.	Brabantia	Bristol
Saucepans, Roaster, Electrical Goods.	Swan Moulinex	Birmingham
Textiles-Curtains	Dorma	-
Ceramic Wall Tiles	H&R Johnson	-
Various/Other	Other/Manufacturer Unknown	-
ITEM	MANUFACTURER	LOCATION (ENGLAND)

Click on relevant MANUFACTURER in table above, to read trivia and view photographs of pieces produced by that particular manufacturer. Some pages are still under construction Detailed descriptions with pictures of selected items can be viewed here
A matching set of three tiles (Border, Inset & Field) were manufactured in 1989 and discontinued in 1991 The picture above is taken from a promotional leaflet The background picture that you see on this page is a high quality scan of an 'inset' tile Scroll down to see this at its best Complete range of M&S tiles 1989
		Autumn Leaves Tiles
Autumn Leaves Wallpaper & Border
Please contact us if you operate or know of a website that features any other Marks&Spencer pottery range such as Harvest, Field Flowers, Provence, Ashberry, Midsummer etc. We do have the following Harvest pieces: Spaghetti Jar; Deep Butter Dish; Flour Sifter-Shiny Glaze design sample; replacement lids for Harvest storage jars.
Click here to view typical Marks & Spencer stock list circa 1992

Autumn Leaves images	Country Kitchen No.1	Country Kitchen No.2	Country Kitchen No. 3	Autumn Leaves Electrical	Typical Identification Markings
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WANTED Stoneware Oval Plate  Butter Dish - Deep Dish/Flat Lid    Storage Jar - Square Very Small with Cork Lid  Flower Vase  Storage Jar with Concave Sides Snack Tray Shiny glaze ceramic Soup Dish Coffee, Sugar or any other description similar to above Tea Storage Jar Melamine Spoon Rest - Single   Kitchen Board Large 40x54  Glassware Tall Glass, Clear  Tall Glass, Frosted Tumbler, Clear Glass Worktop Saver Textile Table Cloth Wipe Clean   Oven Gloves Separate Pattern/Mitt, see above   Miscellaneous Teapot Stand - Wood with Circular Tile  Cheese board & Knife - Wooden with Square Tile Wallcovering & Border  We are particularly interested in non standard pieces that you may have purchased from factory shops or market stalls... Whenever possible we like to visit the person selling any Autumn Leaves. This enables us to pay cash and safeguards against breakages in the post. We are also keen to swap our duplicate rarer pieces (eg development sample storage jars with brown harvest bands) if you have items on our wants list above.  Items for sale/to swap. Although we have an extensive collection we don't have enough spares to open a shop. However we may be able help with replacements.

Thanks for visiting Happy collecting Chris & Kate  18th January 2007   E-mail:  see contact page (opens in pop up style window)

 

 

 

 

 

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