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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 4558592, member: 59"]The numbers I was talking about as "not coinciding" are the date and number in post 7 versus the Design Registration number list for Rd No. 352980 - which falls in the range for numbers assigned in 1900 - and the fact that the number appears on a tea cup and not paper. Prior to 1884, items that were produced under an approved design registration (patent) were identified with a specially shaped mark containing codes for that could be used to locate the paperwork used to submit the design for approval and determine the month in which the approval occurred. But that mark did not contain the assigned registration number. Beginning in 1884 the use of that complicated mark ceased and the Design Registration Number itself could be marked in the item by the maker. The number must be preceded by Rd or Rd No. followed by the assigned number. (Note I said "could" because it wasn't always.) The numbers started with number 1 in 1884 and the "List" I referred to is available in various references showing the only the first number assigned in each year. The one I check runs from 1884 to 1995.[/QUOTE]