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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 884544, member: 56"]Decorator companies can buy blanks for any manufacturer and create their own patterns. How successfully they do that is bound to vary. Marks over those of the porcelain manufacturers are intended to obliterate them. It's not the porcelain body that's being sold on its own merit. A general standard of manufacturing proficiency is expected, and no doubt cost is a major factor. The decorator company takes full credit for the pattern. They don't want any confusion over whose pattern it is, and probably the manufacturers agree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 884544, member: 56"]Decorator companies can buy blanks for any manufacturer and create their own patterns. How successfully they do that is bound to vary. Marks over those of the porcelain manufacturers are intended to obliterate them. It's not the porcelain body that's being sold on its own merit. A general standard of manufacturing proficiency is expected, and no doubt cost is a major factor. The decorator company takes full credit for the pattern. They don't want any confusion over whose pattern it is, and probably the manufacturers agree.[/QUOTE]
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