Thanks D & B: yes, I agree more $$ - -
Why I love web search: I LEARN. The fledgling pottery industry in the USA copied the British backstamps (frequently) = not necessarily to plagiarize but because that is what these manufacturers perceived the public wanted - the lions, etc, the royal, etc. Then, Homer Laughlin, a Very American company, went one better - (D&B this is not new to you) and they produced a backstamp showing an American Eagle attacking a British lion that was laying on it's back and getting the worst of it! Now that backstamp made a statement. !!!!
And on the teapot site I recommended to the original poster, there is a stein, very old, well made/decorated that says something to the effect wishing the new Americans stability or some such. I think maybe they were "on our side"??
Perhaps we owe our British cousins for the right of free speech. 'Nuf said. History lesson over. KB