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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lauragarnet, post: 275231, member: 105&quot;][USER=5515]@MrNate[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; LOL! I agree wholeheartedly! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That helps <i>alot</i>! And looking at that, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s English either.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few days ago, I decide to try and find old decal catalogs that supplied pottery companies to track this down, but so far no luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have learned alot about &#039;decalcomania&#039; though!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>CeramicDecals.Org History of Decals</b></p><p><a href="http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html" rel="nofollow">http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html</a></p><p>[...]&nbsp; Things were going along pretty good until disaster struck. It happened about 1876. It had a name. It was &quot;Popular Demand&quot;. Somehow, somewhere, someone started decorating with decals as a hobby. Maybe it was because decals had become much easier to use. Maybe it was because the lithograph process could turn out such high quality. Maybe it was because the emerging consumer class couldn&#039;t afford hand-decorated china, but they sure could afford to decorate their own. Nobody knows. But we do know this: in 1875, there were only about 300 designs available to decorate with; 2 years later, there were 10,000 !!!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It is from this period that the word &quot;<b>Decalcomania</b>&quot; was coined (meaning &quot;decal craze&quot; or &quot;love of decals&quot;). And even today, Decalcomania is still a common word for decals in many countries. (The singular is &quot;<b>decalcomanie</b>&quot;.) But the actual word &quot;Decal&quot; is short for the French word &quot;<b>Decalquer</b>&quot; (pronounced &quot;De-Kalk &quot;), which means to &quot;copy by tracing&quot;. Remember our friend, monsieur Ravenet?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Other names for decals have been &quot;<b>mineral transfers</b>&quot; in the United States; &quot;<b>diaphanies</b>&quot; and &quot;<b>cockamanies</b>&quot; in England (and, yes, that&#039;s where we get the word &quot;cockamamie&quot; from); and &quot;<b>lithographs</b>&quot; and &quot;<b>lithoplanies</b>&quot; in Europe.</p><p><a href="http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html" rel="nofollow">http://ceramicdecals.org/History_of_Decals.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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