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    Posted 9 years ago

    vwintermoss
    (2 items)

    I have recently moved and have been uncovering unpacked items that have been in storage for years. Here is another item that I have no idea about. This is another piece my mother bought in an antique shop in NYC at least 50 years ago. If anyone has information about this plate, I would appreciate reading about it.

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    1. aghcollect aghcollect, 9 years ago
      It is a blue transferware - "Rome" is the pattern name - here is the potteries info link (1847-1970); http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/c/copelandWT.html
      W.T. Copeland & Sons, from about 1867 into the early 1900's, used an impressed vertical 3-digit date mark with the month letter over the last two digits of the year. October 1890, for example, would be impressed as O [for Oct.] above 90. - Based on your 'kite' mark (the impressed mark to the left), the plate design was registered in 1879 and the impressed date mark of A over 80 I would presume to be manufactured in April of 1880.
    2. aghcollect aghcollect, 9 years ago
      Or August of 1880 - there are two months that start with A
    3. vwintermoss, 9 years ago
      Very interesting - were the late 1800's a time when manufacturing of pottery was at a height? I wonder why my mother was looking for and purchasing pottery from that time period.
      Thank you so much!
    4. noob, 9 years ago
      It could simply be a matter of what is found in particular shops at the time.

      I mean, people are familiar with their own old stuff and feel it's not valuable, so plates that are 10 - 20 years old end up in garage sales, or donated. People's parents' stuff might also be found there.

      But by the time stuff is 70 - 80 years old, it may no longer be as common, and qualifies as good stock for a reasonably priced antique shop. So someone like your mother in the 1950s/ 60s going to antique shops would have been finding 1880s plates, perhaps because that's what was around then.

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