Need help with a platter...

[Peaceman]

15" long 10 1/2" wide.  Cant really make out the hallmark.  Looks like a lion.

[bigwull]

below the lion..can you tell us what it says...i can see an semi...then is it a v..or a u..as for the cpc...it may stand for...   
COOPERATIVE PATENT CLASSIFICATION

[Peaceman]

Not sure.  CPC possibly is Japan... The first word looks a little like "Germany"

[Rauville]

Maybe my old eyes are playing tricks, but I see: "semi vitreous porcelain". You will have to check to see if any of the old companies might match up with C_____Pottery Company (CPC).

[bigwull]

Maybe my old eyes are playing tricks, but I see: "semi vitreous porcelain". You will have to check to see if any of the old companies might match up with C_____Pottery Company (CPC).

thats what i thought Rauville...

[Peaceman]

Maybe the Cook Pottery CO. in Trenton N.J.

[bigwull]

No...you were correct when you said you saw Germany...looking at the pic i can see Germany running from about middle bottom up to the right

[bigwull]

could be this....

CPC, Porzellan, Bavaria Germany

[Peaceman]

This plate is not even footed?

[bigwull]

...Does it have to be?

[mart]

Not all platters are footed !!  That stained crazing hurts this platter but they are not expensive !!

[KC]

Exactly Rauville!!!  semi vitreous porcelain!!!!

You can try and get rid of the staining in the crazing with a baking soda paste.

Why do platters have to have feet?  (sounds like a punch line is coming up!)

[ghopper1924]

I dunno, why DO platters have to have feet?

[cogar]

For the serving of a standing rib roast, of course.

[KC]

Okay cogar, actually made me laugh out loud!!!