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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 445768, member: 85&quot;]Not an expert on this.&nbsp; Could be an older piece of Nippon that someone put a fake mark on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking at Gotheborg.</p><p><a href="http://gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It looks to be the Cherry Blossom mark and not the Maple Leaf.&nbsp; However it doesn&#039;t quite match what the Cherry Blossom mark should be.</p><p>Check the pictures under Cherry Blossom.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the NIPPON section.</p><p><i>&quot;In the 1960s, collector ranks swelled and demand for marked Nippon pieces vastly exceeded the supply. Thus arose the transfer (stencil) based fake Nippon mark applied by unscrupulous dealers to thousands of imported Japanese porcelain. This kind of marks can be identified by the mark being applied inside a glaze area looking a bit like a piece of scotch tape.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So it very well could be Nippon with a fake Nippon stencil.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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