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<p>[QUOTE="Mungo, post: 569868, member: 10050"]I've got a vase/urn set acquired by my mother in the mid-70's at latest. I've already found a doppelganger set with an foil "Nanco Boston Mass" sticker on it on ebay, and i'm relatively sure it aint worth much. </p><p><br /></p><p>On my set, 3 of pieces have the small foil 'made in taiwan' sticker of death, but 1 of them has a weird ID mark on it. I'm guessing its mandarin, because taiwan, but i've seen this style of mark before that looks very rounded and is usually in gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>What are these marks, and what are they trying to tell me about the object? are they only found in 1 language? Do they all say "this was made in X asian country really cheap for export to gullible americans" in various languages? Just curious, because these style of marks keep popping up every now and then, and i can never tell what they mean.[ATTACH=full]172948[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]172949[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mungo, post: 569868, member: 10050"]I've got a vase/urn set acquired by my mother in the mid-70's at latest. I've already found a doppelganger set with an foil "Nanco Boston Mass" sticker on it on ebay, and i'm relatively sure it aint worth much. On my set, 3 of pieces have the small foil 'made in taiwan' sticker of death, but 1 of them has a weird ID mark on it. I'm guessing its mandarin, because taiwan, but i've seen this style of mark before that looks very rounded and is usually in gold. What are these marks, and what are they trying to tell me about the object? are they only found in 1 language? Do they all say "this was made in X asian country really cheap for export to gullible americans" in various languages? Just curious, because these style of marks keep popping up every now and then, and i can never tell what they mean.[ATTACH=full]172948[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]172949[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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