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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ision, post: 2897045, member: 17064&quot;]Since the Wedgwood decoration ceramics I own are all dated 1860, which have this mark on them, and this was the first year Wedgwood started to use Letter date codes, and get into majolica products...and, since I do not discover the asterix on plates...it is certainly a mark indicating which Wedgwood facility created the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wedgwood marks are difficult things, as the company has been continually making ceramics for over 200 years, and marks can be very transitory and undocumented by the company.&nbsp; Not all the information on Wedgwood marks is entirely correct, or complete.&nbsp; There is often a lag time involved, when marks change from one to another, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>The three letter date codes, which they started to use in 1860, may not include three letters at all, but just a single letter for the year by itself, until management was able to properly communicate what it wanted to every one in production.</p><p><br /></p><p>The documentation on antique ceramics is notoriously fallible, and often, outrageously wrong.&nbsp; It is just a matter of ignorance and not deliberate, however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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