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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 4473966, member: 59&quot;]Found it, but here is the site owner&#039;s comment on this mark.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>045. Mark: &quot;M&quot; in a wreath, upside down as compared to Noritake. The use of the &quot;M&quot; gives a date before 1953 but after 1921, from which time Japanese export companies mostly had begun to use &quot;Japan&quot; or &quot;Made in Japan&quot; in their marks. Joan C. Oates, in her book on <i>Phoenix Bird</i> china, attributes the M in upside-down wreath to the Noritake predecessors, the Morimura Brothers. Aimee Neff Aldren also records this as a Morimura Bros (Noritake) mark, dating post 1921 (her code MM-28), which is nor corroborated by Van Patten.<span style="color: #0059b3"> I personally find it unlikely that this mark is Noritake since their corporate profile have always been to be of highest standard. </span>Suggested date 1930s-50s. The star shape is a firing support mark for the base to rest on during firing to avoid sagging and deformation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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