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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 142224, member: 36&quot;]The Nippon mark looks right to me too; my grandmother bought a lot of it new and I&#039;ve been looking at Nippon marks my whole life.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That&#039;s Morimura Brothers, the old mark for Noritake.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen a fake Noritake mark, probably because their older pieces simply aren&#039;t worth enough to be worth the effort to reproduce.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just in case you hadn&#039;t picked this up, choir preaching-to alert, a country of origin on a porcelain or pottery piece generally means it was made after 1890.&nbsp; A US import law changed then, and anyone exporting to the US had to mark where a piece came from.&nbsp; The Germans between WWI and WWII would sometimes mark pieces &quot;foreign&quot; because the country wasn&#039;t popular afterward, for the obvious reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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