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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 351585, member: 301&quot;]Some Deceptive Marks. Scores of pounds per piece have been paid, by outwitted collectors, for pieces of porcelain bearing the double L mark of Sevres, with the letter C in between. The Sevres system of marking was to date the issue of a piece by the dateletter placed within the interlacing L&#039;s. The dateletter C in genuine old Sevres stands for the year 1755, the third year of the fabrique; but upon the spurious pieces the letter C stands for the surname initial of a certain Monsieur Caille, who painted porcelain made in Paris about forty years ago. The mark of LL with a C is therefore, in itself, a worthless index; the fingertip, the cheek, the finger-nail, the ground colour, the finish of the painting, are guides a thousand times more reliable than the letter C between the double L. For Sevres porcelain made in the year 1755 was soft porcelain ; the Caille counterfeit is hard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just sayin....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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