Signed AH small grey dish with sea creature painted in it

Last one today and thanks for any help
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oh sorry, it is 12cm wide and 5cm high.
Many thanks

now this one is more my kind of pottery,I know of 10 AH using studio potters,3 of which use very similar marks but non of them made your bowl

thanks for looking! I've searched AH and HA as well - zilch - (probably because I know little and have no books) nothing on the internet at all.
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yes I checked out both of those options in the British Studio Potters' Marks book

thanks again Dantheman I appreciate it. I do need to get some books! Would that one be a good one to start with?
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I recently bought the 'British studio potters' marks' book by Yates-Owen & Fournier, it's very good if you like studio pottery but it is purely a reference tool,there are examples of the potters' marks and a brief summary of the type of pottery made by that person and where they worked over the years.
big Ed may have more suggestions,I know he has a few pot books

there is a hugh Veater in the book, however his mark is impressed but identical to yours if you turn your pic upside down

Oh yes!
Blagdon studio pottery Bristol

Hmm, the mark is similar but as well as being impressed with a surrounding circle or square his work is said to be lustreware in the book, so I'm not sure. Also, see this link ..

http://www.blagdon.org/blagdon/blag_bus/businesses/pdfs/6BlagdonLustreCatalogue.pdf

Thank you! His work is beautiful. But yes, very different to this little dish. However, now you have said it and I have turned it the other way it definitely looks like a VH or an HV rather than an 'AH/HA' . So I will start searching that as well - many thanks!
oh he is local to me as well but I've never seen any of his pieces around unfortunately.
thanks so much I really appreciate your help.
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