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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 324069, member: 50&quot;]I can give you a start. Your piece was made by de Porceleyne Fles or Royal Delft. They use a letter date code system that started with A in 1879 and when they ran out of alphabet they went to double letters starting with AA etc in 1905.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is a bit confusing as either D or AA may be the date code. D=1882 AA=1905.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other initials are the artist or artists that worked on the piece. In the book &quot;Discovering Dutch Delftware&quot; there is a long list of known and unknown artist initials. There is no &quot;D&quot; written this way or &quot;AA&quot;.&nbsp; There is, however, the combined VP initial for Petrus F. Vreeswijk who worked at the factory 1885-1934.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using that information I&#039;d guess that AA is the date mark for 1905 as apparently he didn&#039;t work at the factory in 1882 if all the info is correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that is my guess, 1905 and painted, at least in part, by Petrus F. Vreeswijk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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