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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 308816, member: 59&quot;]I&#039;ve been trying to find a match for the marks on the bottom of these pieces that a friend received from her grandmother. Her grandmother told her that she had bought them in 1929 (when she was 16) on a trip to &quot;China&quot; with her mother. She called them &quot;Satsuma.&quot; But as we know, true Satsuma wares are from Japan and, with the image of Mount Fuji in the background on the plates and the kimonos on the women (plus their hair styles and umbrellas,) the decoration seems to support that the pieces are from Japan. I have searched Gotheborg twice and cannot find a match for the full collection of characters, although somewhere in that process I did see that a character very similar to the one in the lower left corner - but I couldn&#039;t tell just what it meant. There is no Shimazu mon on these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additional searching on the family tree I had done for my friend revealed that when the grandmother and her mother returned to the US (from a round the world trip that started in the fall of 1929) the ship they were on had departed from Yokohama. That made me wonder whether these might be &quot;Yokohama Satsuma,&quot; which is mentioned in the &quot;notes&quot; at the beginning of the Satsuma section on Gotheborg. Should I be looking in another section for examples and, if so, which one?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve included pictures of the marks on the bottom of 2 different pieces, 1 each of a whole plate and a cup, plus 1 of a closeup of the ladies on a plate. If you have any thoughts at all about where else to look, I would appreciate hearing them. The set is really lovely, quite delicate and is still living in the old fitted box in which her grandmother brought it home.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]101801[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]101802[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]101803[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]101804[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]101805[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(I don&#039;t understand why the uploader rotated them (except for the cup.) That&#039;s not the way they are in my Pictures Library. Grrrr. I will try that again for the sake of your collective necks.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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