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<p>[QUOTE="Tahmoor girl, post: 4280682, member: 20883"]I used my 'Bing' image engine search, which collects all pictures on the Net of anything and it found charts of all antique pottery marks. I did quick visual scan of any mark that looked like the one shown and discovered that is was likely a date mark. Nothing in any of the other pottery charts was remotely similar.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>MINTONS </u></b>was a major company in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_pottery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_pottery" rel="nofollow">Staffordshire pottery</a>, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art Nouveau borders were among the many wonderful concoctions" </p><p><br /></p><p>The family continued to control the business until the mid-20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tahmoor girl, post: 4280682, member: 20883"]I used my 'Bing' image engine search, which collects all pictures on the Net of anything and it found charts of all antique pottery marks. I did quick visual scan of any mark that looked like the one shown and discovered that is was likely a date mark. Nothing in any of the other pottery charts was remotely similar. [B][U]MINTONS [/U][/B]was a major company in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_pottery']Staffordshire pottery[/URL], "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art Nouveau borders were among the many wonderful concoctions" The family continued to control the business until the mid-20th century.[/QUOTE]
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