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    Posted 11 years ago

    grandmarose
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    I love this platter but I can't find out to much about it. It is app. 14 x 22 in size. It has U over 94 fired right into back along with spode a #5 and a #26. It is also very heavy. I have been told it could be a fish platter but I cannot find another one like it. Any suggestions where to look would be greatly appreciated or any information on it would be appreciated also. This is the only piece I have but would love to add to it. Thanks

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    1. maryh1956 maryh1956, 11 years ago
      Copeland merged with Spode at some point. The mark on your piece dates it from 1890-1940. I think Spode has an historical society so you may find info via that if you google their name.
    2. maryh1956 maryh1956, 11 years ago
      Here's a link. I know that the blue flow color is very desirable. http://www.spodemuseumtrust.org/history-of-spode-2.html
    3. maryh1956 maryh1956, 11 years ago
      PS. The U 94 probably stands for 1894
    4. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      Thank You Mary. I have read that the U stands for June and the 94 stood for a year but I had looked through all kinds of spode backstamps and couldn't find any that was like this one. I live in a small town and the library didn't have any books on the backstamps and I couldn't locate it on the spode websight either.I have looked through the stuff that was on the spode museum and I did find there is a platter that looks just like this except that one had a grasshopper pattern on the inside too. Where mine only has the pattern around the top. I am wondering if there will even be any information on it because maybe it was a special request from a buyer back then.
    5. maryh1956 maryh1956, 11 years ago
      It may be that your piece was one that had a lid, so the centre pattern wasn't applied? I am a member Marks4Ceramics, that's where I found your mark, so it is authentic. If there is an option to send an e-mail on the Spode museum website, send a pic of the back and front and ask them why it doesn't have the centre decoration.
    6. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      ok great thank you sooooo much for your help ! I will do that right now. :)
    7. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      Hi Mary just wanted to let you know I got a message back from the museum and they said they couldn't tell me anything without do research so might have to go that route.
    8. maryh1956 maryh1956, 11 years ago
      Go to replacements.com and search " spode copeland covered dish" and see what comes up. I don't think they have much in your pattern, but may have the same size dish in another so you can compare and see if it is indeed missing a lid. Good luck!
    9. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      Hi Mary, I did go through all the replacement . com pieces and there is a similar platter but it has the whole platter printed. And there isn't anything else like this one there either. But if you can think of any other ideas i am open to them. Thanks for your help.
    10. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      still looking for any info as to this platter Anyone???
    11. grandmarose, 11 years ago
      Still hoping to find someone else who can help me find information on this platter. And again thanks to Mary 1956 for her help.

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