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Message:: [QUOTE="Chris Marshall, post: 168598, member: 206"]This faience was created at a a factory normally known more for it's porcelain products; even knowing that often does not ring a bell with people as the company in question was not playing in the common Who's Who league of German factories. It was made at the factory of Ernst Dorfner & Cie. (a.k.a. Dorfner & Compagnie in the old grammar form; later written as Dorfner & Co.) from the Bavarian town of Hirschau. The mark shows a stag jumping right to left. The town name of Hirschau is a name drawn together from Hirsch (deer) and Aue (a toponymy standing for "island; river island; wetland"). Shown inmold mark reads Echt Fayence above Hirschau, representing "Real Hirschau Faience"; the initials H K K stand for Hirschauer Kunst-Keramik = "art ceramics from Hirschau" Shown mark form is of course only found on their faience items and was used "... um 1914...", around 1914.[/QUOTE]