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Antique Questions Forum / The "old" coffee set that brought me here... marking assistance.

« on: November 02, 2011, 12:31:44 pm »

Per the request of others and I agree that opening each thread would be easier. Here are the pictures of the final item. I loaded them into ImageShack so hopefully that is safe and secure. I have no idea why Flickr might have loaded anything else onto computers if that did happen to you.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/6/img0168is.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/img0171kh.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/560/img0172ay.jpg/

Okay, first picture is the marking. According to my mom, she took the marking down to the local guy, said that the marking is only put on one piece of the set. This is that piece.

The second picture is a picture of a picture but it is part of the set. The complete set has coffee pot, creamer, sugar bowl, six cups/saucers, as well as the the third picture in this post.

The third picture is a kind of serving plate, I guess. So, this is the actual set and the actual marking that I sought this site out for. Any help is greatly appreciated and I cannot express my gratitude enough. This has been much quicker than going to Antiques  Roadshow.

I have looked on eBay a little bit since I now know the maker. Might not have hit the jackpot my grandma thought it was.

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Antique Questions Forum / ~5" statue piece with markings... assistance.

« on: November 02, 2011, 12:26:09 pm »

Per the request of others and I agree that opening each thread would be easier. Here are the pictures of the second item. I loaded them into ImageShack so hopefully that is safe and secure. I have no idea why Flickr might have loaded anything else onto computers if that did happen to you.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/img0177jv.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/img0176wxa.jpg/

Again, no idea about the item itself. More interested in identification and such. First picture should be the marking while the second should be the piece.

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Antique Questions Forum / Green "candy dish" marking assistance.

« on: November 02, 2011, 12:23:04 pm »

Per the request of others and I agree that opening each thread would be easier. Here are the pictures of the first item. I loaded them into ImageShack so hopefully that is safe and secure. I have no idea why Flickr might have loaded anything else onto computers if that did happen to you.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/39/img0173kg.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/231/img0174xs.jpg/

The first should link to the marking while the second focuses on the piece in general. I have no idea about this so any leads would be great.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Not Austrian, Germany marking... the real one I need identified!!

« on: November 01, 2011, 07:50:32 pm »

Darn, it will have to wait till tomorrow I guess. Flickr name is "Letsloadphotos" if that does anything. I look forward to clearing this up tomorrow with my computer. Argh!

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Austrian markings on China set... sorry if not properly asked.

« on: November 01, 2011, 07:12:12 pm »

Okay, okay, so help me out some more. So, you know the marking I linked up in the main message? That is the wrong marking for the coffee set that is in question. Hopefully the Flickr link works that I am going to link up. In this link there are three pieces that we know nothing about. I believe the titles of the pictures will shed some light.

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/69328695@N04/

The first piece is a small statue. I have never seen this until my mother pulled it from the box. I hope the picture of the marking is clear.

The second piece is a green color "candy dish" that I have seen before but also know nothing about. We think it is some type of candy dish but have never identified the markings either.

The third marking is the marking that was told to us was the old marking. I believe the title of the picture should identify what I am referring to. This is a coffee set with a sugar bowl, creamer, coffee pot and is a set of six. These pictures were all taken and uploaded from my iPhone so hopefully the markings are all clear.

That said, there might be new life in this thread and am looking for any kind of news whatsoever. Hopefully Matt pokes his head in here to help. I can upload the pictures via my computer but not for ~24 hours or so.

Again thank you for all of the assistance so far and hopefully in the near future.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Austrian markings on China set... sorry if not properly asked.

« on: October 31, 2011, 02:22:08 pm »

I don't know the guy personally so this may have been his first time seeing the mark. I really don't know.

This is all news to me and any accurate information I can gather is good to know.

Lefton, Sadek or Arnart Creations... would this be the first place to look or seek out more accurate information?

I can only go by what my older family members have said and they have recently past so no more clarification from them.

Is there another way to possibly date them... like what is the range of dates that this mark is known to be from? Per Chris' post, these pieces seem to be Japanese in origin before or close to WWII (1930's to 1940's). Is that the most narrow, for dating purposes, we can get right now?

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Antique Questions Forum / Not Austrian, Germany marking... the real one I need identified!!

« on: October 28, 2011, 12:21:38 pm »

I apologize if I have not gone through the correct avenues to get to this point or even if this marking has been identified before.  I have no idea what to search for on this page even if it has been identified before, so I truly do apologize.

http://imageshack.us/g/26/photo1dn.jpg/

Thank you for looking and hopefully being able to help out.  I have linked a couple of photos that go to imageshack above.  I am curious as to what these marks are, when these were used to possibly date them, and to find out what exactly I have.

Story is that my family has had these pieces for ~70 years (WWII) and they have never been identified.  I don't even think we have ever used them other than storage.  How we came about them have conflicting stories but that is not important right now, I don't think.  

One identification issue is that someone in our local area could not identify them because they were older than what he works with, apparently.  Meaning, that these date roughly pre-1750.  I am not sure how accurate that statement is but I am just giving as much information about them that I know here.

What I am seeking is to simply, hopefully, find out the age of these pieces, where they might have originated from (other than Austria) and not so much the value but the possible importance of them.  I am simply curious.  Thank you.