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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finnclouds, post: 9739409, member: 84680&quot;]I don’t remember :-( — it was up to ten years ago. Before Google lens. Before I’d realized it was de Luna&#039;s mark. My image searches pull up vastly more information now than I could find then.&nbsp; Searching by words is way worse now, so it hadn’t occurred to me to re-research my old mystery pieces until I joined this site.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember finding a page about a Talavera exhibition. It showed a couple of marks from different times, but didn&#039;t identify them as de Luna’s marks.&nbsp; I don’t know anything about pottery so assumed the crescent in a shield mark was like a (heraldic) city mark used on silver.&nbsp; Especially as the crescent was also used as part of the silver hallmarks in Germany. So I simply didn’t put the maker’s name, de Luna (moon), and the crescent mark together.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was quite a duh-moment when I realized it, so thought I’d share it as a funny/ cautionary tale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the replies and the links!</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit — I’m not sure how much I paid for but it was surely something like €20, maybe even €40,&nbsp; but I’ve never bought any pottery that cost more than that at the local flea markets.&nbsp; So not a bad deal at all. Not to mention that it was a great introduction to pottery marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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