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<p>[QUOTE="'Nuff_Said, post: 15321, member: 181"]Thank you for trying to decipher the inscription. At least now I have an idea of what it is and something to work with.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have purchased MANY pieces of ceramics over roughly a 3 year period, and I have never seen a piece with shorthand inscriptions at the base. Any ideas on why someone would place this form of inscription on base?</p><p><br /></p><p>We assume the writer is giving some form of provenance and/or ownership by adding these names(?) and dates at right (not sure if the 85 stands for 1885 or 1985).</p><p><br /></p><p>The item also looks to have once been cataloged by someone or some institution given the faint letters & numbers (EC22500) near the footrim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="'Nuff_Said, post: 15321, member: 181"]Thank you for trying to decipher the inscription. At least now I have an idea of what it is and something to work with. We have purchased MANY pieces of ceramics over roughly a 3 year period, and I have never seen a piece with shorthand inscriptions at the base. Any ideas on why someone would place this form of inscription on base? We assume the writer is giving some form of provenance and/or ownership by adding these names(?) and dates at right (not sure if the 85 stands for 1885 or 1985). The item also looks to have once been cataloged by someone or some institution given the faint letters & numbers (EC22500) near the footrim.[/QUOTE]
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