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This is a travelling basket or crate for transporting pottery in the UK and for export, and for transporting insulators for British Rail’s electrification programme (post World War II). It was made by Mr D. Barker who, in 1966, was the last wooden crate-maker in the Potteries (compared with 350 makers when he started in 1915). It is a large rectangular crate, peculiar to the Potteries, with a birch frame (from Shropshire and Herefordshire) and hazel weaving (from Basingstoke and Guildford). There is a metal plaque on the top reading ‘Bullers Ltd. 58503 // Muton Stoke on Trent’. This crate made 4–5 journeys carrying insulators before being donated to the Museum. These wooden crates were superseded by steel crates with plastic packing materials.