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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 3800580, member: 18716"]While that is widely written and found in some text books it's not correct. Items from China, Japan and SEA were not routinely marked on the object in English translations until the 1930's. Some items were marked on the packaging instead:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]316762[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Others had paper labels which were easily removed,</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]316763[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and others ignored it completely. Even the first Noritake Maruki mark was just a symbol and was first used in 1902 on their export ware with no Western text on items themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>This commonly results in items being attributed to earlier dates than they actually are. This came about due to the McKinley Tariff act rules which laid down requirements, but the books don't talk about how the supply chain got around the rules or used non permanent methods to comply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 3800580, member: 18716"]While that is widely written and found in some text books it's not correct. Items from China, Japan and SEA were not routinely marked on the object in English translations until the 1930's. Some items were marked on the packaging instead: [ATTACH=full]316762[/ATTACH] Others had paper labels which were easily removed, [ATTACH=full]316763[/ATTACH] and others ignored it completely. Even the first Noritake Maruki mark was just a symbol and was first used in 1902 on their export ware with no Western text on items themselves. This commonly results in items being attributed to earlier dates than they actually are. This came about due to the McKinley Tariff act rules which laid down requirements, but the books don't talk about how the supply chain got around the rules or used non permanent methods to comply.[/QUOTE]
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