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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;D. Wright, post: 281005, member: 5669&quot;]Hi folks - I&#039;m hoping to get some information on a Japanese tea set I inherited some years back. The story, as I was told growing up, was that my great-grandfather brought it over when he emigrated to the US (then Canada, thankfully!) from the Netherlands in the early 1900s, and that his (grand?)mother had received it as a wedding present years earlier. (Her father was a merchant in the Far East, as I understand, thus brought it back from his travels.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious about the set&#039;s origins - I believe the maker&#039;s mark references Shimazu, rulers of Satsuma han in the Meiji period, and Japan of course, but I could be misreading/misinterpreting things. And none of that really makes much sense to me, anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts / insights? Cheers, &amp; thanks in advance![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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