Posted 10 years ago
primrosefan
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Found him years ago and know very little about him.
It has a mark C + number and foreign on it but apart from that I use
my imagination. He stands on my mantle shelf smiling away
and keep expecting him to tip his top hat at us! Love to know if he is modelled on an historic figure. We do not keep drink in him lol.
He's very nice! Not a thing on the internet. Did an Image search and came up empty.
Why it's only stamped "Foreign":
http://gotheborg.com/qa/foreignstamp.shtml
Porcelain with "Foreign" stamp
A while ago the question came up "Why would a piece of porcelein have stamped "foreign" on the bottom of it, and nothing else?"
The question was forwarded to the gotheborgList and "Tim" supplied the answer that in 1893 the USA - being a rising power - passed a law that all imported items must be marked by the country of origin having until 1923 for complete marks. In the meantime countries like England and France just marked their pieces with "England" instead of "Made in England", which was required in 1923.
Some less sophisticated countries simply marked their goods "foreign" between 1893 and 1923 meaning it was their export product, going outside their own country.
Thanks, interesting.
The C is inside lines forming a box and just spotted a faint B near the impressed number. I love a mystery and he sure is one. Looking at him now he appears to be mocking me!