The old “Blue Bell” bottle kiln, Stoke-on-Trent, by Harry Smith. A blurry eBay image, so not representative of his fine ink-work. This popped up on eBay and had this usefully complete biography stuck on the back…

A little riffle through the Potteries Auction website also found these…

He also did some footballing portraits and some Second World War aviation pictures, reflecting his time serving with the ‘Dam Busters’ RAF Squadron. Likely to have been most active in the 1960s and 70s in the Potteries.

Evidently his prints have come up for local auction over the last 18 months or so, and may now be starting to filter onto eBay. One hopes that the best of the originals have been given to local museums for safe-keeping.