factory mark

Some have the factory mark, three wavy lines one atop another.

From about 1640 Delft potters began using personal monograms and distinctive factory marks.

The duke's and incised or in underglaze blue were used as the factory mark.

Numerous factory marks are known throughout the ages, and are essential in determining the provenance or dating of productions.

A factory mark is a symbolic marking afixed by manufacturers on their productions in order to authentify them.

Notable marks include crossed Ls, and E. below, in blue on the underside with the factory mark and year letter.

The factory mark was the initials "RS" in red encircled by a green wreath beneath a red five-pointed star.

There are no factory marks for the Liverpool concerns although a mark on later wares is sometimes seen in under-glaze blue with the initials HP.

Branded with the factory mark, it sold at auction at William Doyle Galleries on May 8 for $8,050.

In 1991 he admitted that the years at the Renault car factory marked "the beginning of his career as a photographer and the end of his youth."

"He became obsessed with the history of English porcelain manufacturers," Ms. Fenichell said, noting that the field is complicated because few factories marked their wares.

Factory mark are essential in the area of porcelain production especially, where they are sometimes also called "backstamps", and where their absence would make authentification much more difficult.

The establishment of the Third Factory marks the date that the enterprise became joint state-private owned from solely privately owned, then transferred into publicly owned enterprise.

It is recognized by its factory mark, the three wavy lines above each other, symbolizing Denmark's three straits: Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.

The factories marked the United States' attempt to continue a process originally pioneered by the French and then by the Spanish to officially license the fur trade in Upper Louisiana.