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A \u2018Travel\u2019 dinner service for six, depicting travel through snow  and by balloon, bus, train, aeroplane, steamboat and sail, cost \u00a317 3s 6d. Ravilious also designed commemorative wares, including a Coronation Mug for Edward VIII (1936), later adapted for the coronations of both George VI and Elizabeth II; a mug celebrating the company\u2019s relocation to Barlaston (1939); and a \u2018Boat Race Day\u2019 bowl, cup and stand (1938). 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