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<p>[QUOTE="JB Miller, post: 10094516, member: 2476"]It looks like it reads MJ 16. FY Xmas. So, MJ would have been the hobbyist painter's initials. 16 is for 1916. FY was the recipient. Xmas the occasion. The letter Y is MJ's version of an Old English letter Y. Many places imported and sold white china for decorating.</p><p><br /></p><p>An ad from Keramic Studio in May, 1912 for Favorite China imported by Burley & Co.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]506652[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JB Miller, post: 10094516, member: 2476"]It looks like it reads MJ 16. FY Xmas. So, MJ would have been the hobbyist painter's initials. 16 is for 1916. FY was the recipient. Xmas the occasion. The letter Y is MJ's version of an Old English letter Y. Many places imported and sold white china for decorating. An ad from Keramic Studio in May, 1912 for Favorite China imported by Burley & Co. [ATTACH=full]506652[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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