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Az Posts: 12 Registered: Apr 2005	posted 04-02-2005 03:38 AM Can anybody please help me with identifying these marks? from a tea pot probably Japanese? Thanks in advance! IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 04-02-2005 07:12 AM Az- Please tell us more about yourself? Did you find this in the Netherlands? Why are you researching this; for business purposes? IP: Logged
Az Posts: 12 Registered: Apr 2005	posted 04-02-2005 10:56 AM I found this a while ago in Belgium. But an expert told me its in fact Chinese and ca. 1880-1900 so i guess my question is answered. IP: Logged
Davy C Posts: 4 Registered: Oct 2001	posted 04-03-2005 04:31 PM The first two side by side characters on top reads from right to left are name of city. It reads "Tian-Jin" which located a short distance S.E. of Beijing. It was an important 19 C. international trading seaport at northern China. The rest of characters do not have any particular meaning in terms of calendar years or silver related. I don't know how anyone know about which calendar year from which it was produced other than guessing. At the time before 20 C., the Chinese calendar year are marked not by numerical numbers. Instead, they were marked first by emperor's official name (usually two characters), and follow up by the two characters represent the year.(total 60 and cyclic). A lot of other type of antiques such as ceramic, painting, and carving, You will see such calendar marking in the form of hand writing or seal. I don't see any such characters on this piece of silver will represent that. Here are what I can put in translation. From top to bottom, there are four groups: The first group. other than the city's name I already mentioned. The other two characters are "thing" or "goods" and "China" The second group of only one character means "thick" or "thickness" The third group of two characters is interesting. It means the line marking (finger prints??) on the "foot" The last single character at bottom means "good ethic". It could be part of character used in a person's name. I hope this helps IP: Logged
Az Posts: 12 Registered: Apr 2005	posted 04-04-2005 03:43 AM Thanks for your info Davy C its great to know which city the pot has been produced! Thanks again. IP: Logged

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