Crown over blurry green mark on snake handled vase Query

by CS

Crown over blurry green mark on snake handled vase Query:- Trying to help a friend identify this mark. In addition to the marks visible in this photo, it also has an E (or roman numeral III?), and a number 655 on it. The vase itself is sort of victorian/baroque if that makes any sense.

I will upload a picture of that following this one.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

CS

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Reply by Peter (admin)

to Crown over blurry green mark on snake handled vase Query

Hi CS

If it was blurry for you, then your blurry and very far away photo made it double blurry for me!! LOL

I tried to enhance the photo the best I could, but I can't begin to help unless you can take a CLEAR photo of your blurry pottery mark.

Generally, blurry backstamps mean older wares because nowadays they have the technology to be clear - and blurry means hand applied (by possibly drunk employee).

That drunk employee may well have been a colleague of mine at the Royal Worcester Company, because I found a vase made by Royal Worcester for Tiffany & Co New York which obviously came out of the same mould and had the same snake handles (the hand application makes the snakes slightly different on each one).

I can only presume the stamp must be for a retailer or distributor, because it is nothing like any of the typical Worcester marks I have seen, but why they would not include the Worcester name alongside their own (as did the Tiffany stamp) who knows? Any Worcester association would make the item more valuable.

Hope this helps somewhat, although it has confused me more.

Regards

Peter (admin)

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