Morrocan/Dutch Hallmarked Coffee Pot ?

Discussion in 'Metalware' started by bosko69, Sep 21, 2023.

  1. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Here's a 7 3/4" coffee/teacup i picked up-it looks Morrocan but the base seems to be stamped 'Made In Holland'. That's what i see,but may be reading it wrong.I have no idea what the other two hallmarks mean.

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  2. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

  3. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Thanks Roaring.
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Very nice teapot, bosko. Tea, not coffee, Moroccans have a tea drinking culture. Moroccan tea is a mix of either black or green tea and fresh mint leaves, and lots of sugar.
    A Dutch-Moroccan teapot makes sense, we have a large Moroccan community, which includes artisans.

    The star on the base is a symbol of Morocco, it is also on the Moroccan flag. The gazelle is probably a mhorr gazelle, native to Morocco.
    Moroccans are a very different group from the Afro-Dutch community. They are from the Maghreb, not from sub-Saharan Africa like the Afro-Dutch community.

    Most Afro-Dutch are descendants of West African slaves who were taken to the West Indies. They have a long history with the Dutch West India Company, which had chambers in a number of west and north Dutch towns. As a result they have a centuries old connection with that part of the Netherlands.

    Dutch Moroccans came here as migrant workers from the 1960s onward. Most of them are Berbers/Amazigh from the Rif Mountains, near the Mediterranean coast and a stone's throw from Spain.
    Rif Berbers/Amazigh are very closely related to Europeans genetically, but they don't have a centuries old connection with any part of the Netherlands.
    There are significantly more Moroccans here than Afro-Dutch people.
     
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  5. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Thanks AJ for the tea info & star/gazelle ID.The star stamp has an initial in each corner-S,A,T,L,A, but it could just as easily be 'ATLAS' depending on what initial begins the abbreviation or name.
    Wait...trying to discover who made this is turning into the DaVinci Code !
     
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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The letters spell Atlas, after the Atlas mountains, a North African mountain range. The Western part of the Atlas range is in Morocco.
     
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  7. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    AJ-Yes,I think it's common product branding in Morocco.Ah well-it's prob made in some tiny workshop in a stall of some souk by some skilled artisan known only to god.
     
  8. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Not too many souks in the Netherlands.;)
     
  9. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    I meant in Morocco,it looks like a lot of these come from Fez.
     
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