Anyone know what this hallmark is?

I'm unable to make out really anything on this other than it appears to be two figures facing each other with one handing the other something. A couple letters look to be "the" but not sure what the rest is to be able to make a word

 

Hi, @GingerSnaps ! What is the item? Is it broken? (It looks like it from the picture.) Can you show a picture of all of it, or at least the piece that you have?

I don't know the answer to your question but this information could help others.

 

It is a shard I found while bottle digging. It appears to be ironstone and from a saucer or plate perhaps?.

 

BTW - hallmark implies the piece is gold, sterling, platinum etc. This has a maker's mark, not a hallmark. The maker's mark looks familiar, but bedarned if I can remember where I've seen it.

 

Sorry did not know. I had searched on Kovel's marks with "figures" and did not find it and google as well with various terms and came up with nothing

 

Figure on the left looks a lot like Britannia.

 

Watkins?

 

The figures appear to be an Indian (with arrows) on the left and a soldier of some sort on the right, shaking hands?

A city seal of somewhere from the southwest?

 

It's a Glasgow Pottery mark. It says National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. There's a date at the bottom--March 3, 1865, for when the act of Congress established the Home. So this pottery was made specifically for the Home. The DeBolt's book says Glasgow closed in 1905.

 

Oh wow!!! Thanks so much! I just looked up info on it as well and I read that the government commissioned Glasgow Pottery of Trenton, New Jersey, to make pottery for the home in 1899 and like you said they closed in 1906....according to Kovel's. So interesting to know and again thank you very much for id'ing the piece for me!