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From the 16th century, local sources of cobalt blue started to be developed, although Persian cobalt remained the most expensive. Antique stores, estate sales, and sometimes even flea markets are other great places to find this beautiful pottery.

There are tens of thousands of transferware patterns, but one of the most recognizable and most common is Blue Willow. However, a blue tinted example of this which was sold at auction by www. Before the transferware process of printing was developed, each piece would be hand decorated.

Membership Information - The Blue Willow story is a nice tale, but it has no real basis in fact. Although limited reproductions of all those types have been made for many years, new blue transferware now occupies entire pages of reproduction wholesale catalogs.

By using the information below you can find the date a design was registered. Not every piece registered was marked. Remember this date is just when the design was registered. An item with a registry mark or number could have been produced before less likely as the design datiing not be protectedor after dating transferware date of the registry mark. The following two diamond shaped marks were used from 1842-1883: Mark I: Used from 1842-1867 Each letter on the diagram represents one of the tables below: C. To give an example using the mark above the chart, you get the following information: Material-Ceramics, Design registered-April 7, 1857. The Bundle number is unimportant to most collectors. To give an example using the mark above the chart, you get the following information: Material-Ceramics, Design registered-August 9, 1870. The Bundle number is unimportant to most collectors. English Registry Numbers: After 1883 a Numerical mark was used in the a form: Rd 742833 or Rd No. If your number is higher, but less than the number for the next year, then your item dahing it's design registered during that year. In July 1990 the numbering transderware changed as dating transferware on the chart. The last number issued in July 1990 was 1061406 and transfewrare again In August starting with number 2000000. To give an example using the number above the chart, Rd 742833 means: Design datign your item was registered during 1929. The Public Record office and the British Government tend to enforce these marks and registration numbers. This protects both collectors and the companies who registered the marks.