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12 Mile Pottery – 12 Mile Pottery Broome (impressed)
Aarons, Anita – Hermosa (incised), AA (incised)
Accadia, Peter – a (impressed), Accadia (incised)
Acheson, Sue – Circle within a circle (impressed)
Ackerman, Frances – two half circles, one smaller than the other, with stems and three crossed lines [1985, 1986]
Acton, Natalie – Natalie Acton (incised)

Airlie Pottery – Airlie Pottery (impressed) with S Taylor Wodonga (incised); also Airlie Pottery (impressed) with Wodonga, VIC (incised) and Airlie Pottery Trading Company (printed)
Aiston Park Pottery – Aiston Park Pottery (impressed) alone or with a cross in a circle or three wavy lines in a circle, Aiston Park Pottery S.A. (printed), D.C. (DC) Aiston Park Pottery (impressed)

Albury Pottery– Albury Pottery ( impressed), Albury Handcrafted Pottery (impressed), Albury Pottery Handcrafted Australia (printed), Albury Pottery Made in Australia (printed)
Aldred, Chris – CA (impressed)
Alenson, Joan – in 1974-1981 but no mark recorded
Alexander, Anne – Anne (incised) [1986]; also Anne Alexander (incised)
Alexander, Brian – Brian Alexander (incised)
Alexander, Brian and Chris – Alexander Australia (impressed)
Alexander, Chris – Chris Alexander (incised)
Alexander, Doug – four-petal flower in circle (impressed) [1977], moebius strip (impressed) [1981, Ford]; also ealier marks: A (impressed), Alex (painted), X in circle (impressed); also the moebius strip (also called fingers through clay) with a tiny impressed DA.
Alfred, Trudie – AT [1977, 1981]
Alkoomi Pots – Alkoomi or Alkoomi Pots (painted or incised)
Allan, Robert – in 1981 but no mark recorded
Allen, Dawn – DA [1977], Da [1981, 1986]; also seen examples Da (painted or impressed)
Allsop, Rob – Rob Allsop (incised), Rob Allsop Pottery (impressed)
Almond, Trevor – TA (incised), BP (impressed), Trevor Almond (incised)
Alting, Bernadine – B. Alting (impressed)
Altpere-Woodhead, Maiju – a (impressed)
Alty, Kathy – KA (painted), Kathy Alty (incised)
Alty, Wayne – Wayne Alty (incised)
Alvarez, Lino – Lino Alvarez (incised)
Alvarez, Lino and Ronald Charles – Outline of a dove [1985, 1986 under La Paloma Pottery]

Anakie Pottery – Anakie Pottery (impressed), Anakie Pottery Australia (printed in two versions), Anakie Pottery Australia Handmade (printed)
Anderson, Beryl – BA [1986]
Anderson, Bruce – BA (embossed)
Anderson, Graeme – GA and LR for Lightning Ridge [1981]
Anderson, Marie-Louise – Louise Anderson Yackandandah (impressed), Louise Anderson (painted), L. Anderson (painted), Marie-Louise (painted or incised), Marie-Louise Anderson (painted), MLA (impressed)
Anderson, Pam – PA (incised)
Anderson, Peter C. – PCA and LP for Lacon Pottery (I think) [1981]
Andersson, Peter – PA in square (impressed) [1981, 1986, 1996]
Andrews, Dot – Andrews (painted)
Andrews, Dot and Eddie – Paris Creek Pottery (incised)
Andrews, Eddie – EA [1977] or EAndrews (both incised)
Andrews, Elvira – EA [1977]
Angledean Pottery – Angledean Pottery (impressed) for David & Valerie Chappell
Anicca Studio – Anicca [1996 under Chantale Delrue]
Anketell, Sonia – in 1973 and 1981 but no mark recorded
Annois, Jane – Jane Annois (incised)
Anstice, Hildegard – HA (impressed) [1977, 1985, 1986]
Anthill Pottery – Anthill Pottery (incised)

Archer, David – David Archer South Australia (printed with fish)
Archibald, Jillian– Jill (incised)
Ardern, Elsa – E. Ardern (incised) [Ford]; also EA (E.A.) (incised)
Ardolino Ceramics – Ardolino Ceramics (incised), Ardolino Ceramic productions (impressed)
Arena, Carmel – Carmel Arena (incised) with C in a square (impressed)
Armitage, Joan – JA (impressed)
Armstrong, Barry – BA inside fourteen-rayed circle (impressed) [1977]
Armstrong, Beryl – BA (incised), Beryl Armstrong (incised), souvenir ware also with Greetings from [Victorian Country town] (impressed), Log Cabin (incised) with Greetings from Maryville (impressed)
Arrowsmith, Edward – EA [1990]
Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery – AMB (incised)
Arthur, Warren – WA (painted) with A (impressed) for Amesfield Pottery, WA (impressed)
Artisan Pottery – Artisan Studio Tasmania (stamped) with LB and RS for Lisa Boyter and Rudolf Sibrava [1996]; also A (impressed) with three dots
Ashburner, Harry – HA (painted or impressed)
Assad-Salha, Neville – Dutton Pottery (painted), personal mark not yet recorded
Ashton, Michele – Michele Ashton Australia (incised), MA (incised)
Astley, Bill – B.A. (BA) (impressed)
Asuka Pottery – Bar in circle and two dots [1977] for Shiga Shigeo’s Terrey Hills workshop
Atkinson, Verna – VA (impressed or incised)
Attwell, Ro – Ro (painted)

Auld, Ros – solid triangular shape with circle in it [1985, 1986]; also Auld (painted or incised)
Austin, Kelly – KA (cursive) [JAC 54/1]
Austin, Wynne – WA (incised)
Australian Clayworkers – Australian Clayworkers Pottery Handcrafted in Australia (printed), Handcrafted for Yarra Glen by Australian Clayworkers (printed)
Austware Pottery – Handmade Austware (impressed) with the initials of the pieceworker and the year, Austware Hand Made (impressed) around an abstracted map of Australia, Austware (printed) around an abstracted map of Australia, either empty or with a grass tree or the year inside
Auton, Nic – NIC A (painted), Legend in map of Australia (impressed), NIC in map of Australia (impressed)
Avery, Jean – A (painted or incised)
Avery, Scott – in 1981 but no mark recorded

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