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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9740467, member: 649"]I believe Wedgwoods' date marks involve a <i>three-letter/digit</i> code, not a single letter?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.thepotteries.org/mark/w/date.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And from <a href="https://etruria.com.au/pages/wedgwood-marks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://etruria.com.au/pages/wedgwood-marks" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> source:</p><p>"Various single letters, numbers and symbols are often found on pieces and indicated the potter or decorator, so his pieces could be counted and he could be paid for them. These are not date marks and, with a few notable exceptions, have no meaning to us now."</p><p>and</p><p>"A three letter date code is sometimes found and starts in 1860 but is rarely found on jasper or basalt items; it absence is not indicative of any date... Single letters are not date letters, they're tally marks, used to identify the potters who worked on a piece so they could be paid."</p><p>And they state that the serif Wedgwood mark is pre-1930.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9740467, member: 649"]I believe Wedgwoods' date marks involve a [I]three-letter/digit[/I] code, not a single letter? [IMG]https://www.thepotteries.org/mark/w/date.jpg[/IMG] And from [URL='https://etruria.com.au/pages/wedgwood-marks']THIS[/URL] source: "Various single letters, numbers and symbols are often found on pieces and indicated the potter or decorator, so his pieces could be counted and he could be paid for them. These are not date marks and, with a few notable exceptions, have no meaning to us now." and "A three letter date code is sometimes found and starts in 1860 but is rarely found on jasper or basalt items; it absence is not indicative of any date... Single letters are not date letters, they're tally marks, used to identify the potters who worked on a piece so they could be paid." And they state that the serif Wedgwood mark is pre-1930.[/QUOTE]
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