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<p>[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 240262, member: 308"]A couple of possibilities spring to mind: 1. It is not Pickard. Pickard used blanks from all over. You can find them with marks from Limoges, Noritake, and several German companies for example. It's possible that this same blank was also available to other decorating companies and maybe even to individuals. 2. It could have been decorated by Pickard but for some reason was not deemed worthy of being marked. Perhaps a practice piece or a test piece? I'm not sure if we'll ever know if one of those possibilities is correct. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you're planning on listing this I don't think there would be any harm in acknowledging Pickard as a possibility. It may appeal to both sugar tray collectors and Pickard collectors. As far as I know all Pickard was marked but, of course, if some of it is floating around unmarked I'm not sure how we'd know.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> As a Pickard collector it would not appeal to me but I don't collect sugar trays. If I was collecting Pickard sugar trays I might purchase this as a novelty to display along side them. </p><p>Don[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 240262, member: 308"]A couple of possibilities spring to mind: 1. It is not Pickard. Pickard used blanks from all over. You can find them with marks from Limoges, Noritake, and several German companies for example. It's possible that this same blank was also available to other decorating companies and maybe even to individuals. 2. It could have been decorated by Pickard but for some reason was not deemed worthy of being marked. Perhaps a practice piece or a test piece? I'm not sure if we'll ever know if one of those possibilities is correct. If you're planning on listing this I don't think there would be any harm in acknowledging Pickard as a possibility. It may appeal to both sugar tray collectors and Pickard collectors. As far as I know all Pickard was marked but, of course, if some of it is floating around unmarked I'm not sure how we'd know.;) As a Pickard collector it would not appeal to me but I don't collect sugar trays. If I was collecting Pickard sugar trays I might purchase this as a novelty to display along side them. Don[/QUOTE]
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