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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 90998, member: 649&quot;]Greetings!</p><p>I picked up 12 cup/saucer sets today: six are regular &quot;tea&quot;-sized and six are espresso/demitasse size. Both sizes are shaped identically. Several of the pieces are unmarked, several have the green Royal Falcon mark and only one has the blue Adams mark. A popular pottery mark website indicates Adams didn&#039;t come out with &quot;Microtex&quot; until the 1960s... but as I said, only one piece has this mark. Could it have been commissioned as a replacement for a broken piece? Any suggestions on age?</p><p>The bigger question, though, is the design. &quot;Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense&quot; is used by the Most Noble Order of the Garter... there IS a garter in the design, surrounding the swan. I can&#039;t find anything about this motto in connection to swans. I did think about the annual Swan Upping but couldn&#039;t find that any of the three groups associated with that activity use this motto. And what about the hat? Perhaps it&#039;s associated with whatever group used this insignia. It looks like a bishop&#039;s mitre.</p><p>Thanks for any help!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]23097[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23098[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23099[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23100[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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