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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9435648, member: 2844&quot;]Interesting, Eleanor, and welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>The owner of &#039;int oude moriaanshooft&#039;*, Geertruy Verstelle (GVS) wrote in the Delft municipal marksbook that she marked her goods that way (with her initials).</p><p><br /></p><p>*&#039;int oude Moriaanshooft&#039; means &#039;<b>in </b>the old Moors head&#039;. Buildings in the Netherlands used to have names.</p><p>Similarly, &#039;de twee wildemans&#039; would have been the name of the building, rather than the company. The owner of the pottery was Willem van Beek, hence W: V: B:.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that was the way these owners marked their goods, N: Z: P: could also be the initials of an owner, either in Delft or elsewhere.</p><p>I suspect these initial-signing potteries were all very small businesses rather than actual factories. Maybe a single potter-painter, hence the lesser quality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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