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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 11192, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> A lot of companies did not have pattern names and used numbers and a lot of patterns were named but lost until the names are found in old trade catalogs. The decals were supplied by outside contractors and sold to many different pottery companies.</p><p>The companies used them different ways. What I am saying is your plate may never had a name and just used as "give aways". That happens a lot to pieces without a mark on the bottom. The jobbers did not want you to know who made the pieces so they were not marked.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 11192, member: 78"]Hi, A lot of companies did not have pattern names and used numbers and a lot of patterns were named but lost until the names are found in old trade catalogs. The decals were supplied by outside contractors and sold to many different pottery companies. The companies used them different ways. What I am saying is your plate may never had a name and just used as "give aways". That happens a lot to pieces without a mark on the bottom. The jobbers did not want you to know who made the pieces so they were not marked. greg[/QUOTE]
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