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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 828011, member: 136&quot;]Karen, it looks as if you already asked &quot;the expert&quot; (Walter Del Pellegrino) elsewhere (<a href="https://community.ebay.com/t5/Pottery-Glass-Porcelain/P-V-Italy-Pottery/td-p/26710821" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.ebay.com/t5/Pottery-Glass-Porcelain/P-V-Italy-Pottery/td-p/26710821" rel="nofollow">https://community.ebay.com/t5/Pottery-Glass-Porcelain/P-V-Italy-Pottery/td-p/26710821</a>) but actually, his earlier answer to another poster answered your question, as well:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>This mark has had me stumped for a number of years.</i></p><p><i>There are two types of PV marks-one written, as in your example and another either impressed into the clay or printed with PV in a circle. I am now of the opinion that either mark refers to &#039;Peasant Village&#039;. This was a line created for, and imported by, Mittledorfer Strauss of New York. Peasant Village pieces were made in several countries, including France, Italy, and even the U.S.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Mittledofer used the PV logo beginning in 1928 and I believe they continued to use it through the 1960&#039;s. The parent company, Mittledorfer Strauss, remained active into the 1970&#039;s.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>There is no way to tell which specific factory made these pieces as the customer, (the importer in this case) refused to allow any company names or logos to be used except their own.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds to me as if the pieces marked PV were Deruta-made for import by Mittledorfer but did not carry the word DERUTA, even tho they were made at the same place as the ones that are marked DERUTA and not imported by PV.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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