English Plate

[u/Sensitive-Elk7093]

I had the day off today so my wife and I rode over to St Augustine, Florida, about an hour and a half ride. They have a couple of really nice thrift stores that we like to go to occasionally. At the second stop (first one was Alpha Omega and the second was St Vincent De Paul) I was looking in the glassware section and after turning down three Pyrex coffee cups at the first stop (they were $8 apiece and I passed) I picked up a random plate thinking I’d get a correlle plate. I turned it over and had a hard time reading what was stamped into the glass. It said Pyrex and the other side said England. I was stoked! Here’s the information I found:
The exact name of this vintage 1980s Pyrex England pattern is Laura. [1]
It was released in 1986 as a special product line honoring the renowned designer Laura Ashley, capturing her signature English-country aesthetic with tiny, repeating grey tulips and delicate pink accent bands. On online marketplaces or collector forums, you will frequently see it listed interchangeably as "Laura" or "Laura Ashley Tulips".
It’s not expensive, $8-$14, and definitely used as the tulips 🌷 are rubbed off mostly but it’ll put it with my dishes and use it!!!

[u/jtfolden]

There is no official connection to Laura Ashley with this pattern. Corning Ltd just had a period of using women’s names for their patterns during the 1980s (Emily, Lisa, Laura, etc...). The connection to Ashley is a neologism.

[u/Sensitive-Elk7093 → u/jtfolden]

I’m informing Larry and Sergey that their website is giving out false and misleading information. Thank you for the astute response. I will go forth from here a new man with much more knowledge than I could have ever imagined possible. I will sleep better tonight. Bless your heart.

[u/jtfolden → u/Sensitive-Elk7093]

And that nonsense gets repeated a lot online.