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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 9575817, member: 50&quot;]Gotheborg sort of mentions both the Tashiro Shoten connection from White&#039;s book and the Goldcastle only as different entries. Neither mark is the exact one as they only show and elephant and mention a flower and show a word symbol for Tashiro. I don&#039;t know that the dates line up exactly.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tashiro Shoten Ltd, Nagoya</b></p><p>&quot;Tashiro Shoten Ltd porcelain shop in Yokohama which were active before WWII up until 1954. The use of the word &quot;Shoten&quot; indicates the name for a shop which is selling products from its own kiln. The years below are all tentative and we have no firm data on specific years. Carol Bess White, <i>Made in Japan</i> books has it that <b>Goldcastle</b>, <b>CHIKUSA</b> belongs to Tashiro Shoten Ltd in <i>Nagoya</i>, Japan. Other names used by Tashiro Shoten are &quot;<b>Trico</b>&quot;, &quot;<b>Trico China</b>&quot;, &quot;<b>Royal Trico</b>&quot;, and two logo marks: <b>Elephant</b> above MADE IN JAPAN and <b>TA</b> within a cherry blossom flower. For the Japanese market it appears as if a Japanese mark was used since pieces with the elephant mark is hardly or not at all found in Japan today.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Goldcastle</b></p><p><a href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/753_fullsize.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/753_fullsize.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/753.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> 753. Mid 20th century, 1950-60s.</p><p><a href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/753_fullsize.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/753_fullsize.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/graphics/magnfglass.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Click here to see large picture</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/759.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 759. &quot;GOLDCASTLE MADE IN JAPAN&quot;, Mid 20th century, 1950-60s.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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