a great help thanks obb. yeah the blues (wonderful blue) i'm wondering if empoli as well (made in italy in relief) and surprisingly a knife and fork mark (dishwasher?)
thanks me old bud....gotta a new concept when taking photos of something where to weigh into it the empty space, not just focusing on the object (if that makes sense )
Swoboda and Krementz both did similar pieces here. Krementz signed on their pin stem. If up close isn't in your eyeballs' bag of tricks any more, run a fingernail over the part of the pinback near the hinge. A longish patch of catches means it's likely theirs.
One of the local thrifts here had those as well for a few weeks, and they were sold today (not to me)