Topic: Small vase marked 'foreign' - West German?

[Pete]

Not German. Act of parliament (UK) forced the Germans to mark their wares with place of origin sometime around 1910. This looks 60s or 70s to me by which time most countries properly id'd their wares only excpetions to my knowledge were Hong Kong and poss Taiwan and some Eastern European countries.
Love this color combo. Cute item.
Pete

[Pete]

Ok thats my theory and British law out the window then.
Well, unless of course these item(s) were exported to country B which didn't have such laws. UK tourist goes to country B on holiday & brings it back in suitcase, probably assuming that it was also made in that country !

I sent Marcus a Vizner SU hand pressed vase decorated with map of Norway and written "Souvenir of Norway".

The only piece Ive ever had marked Foreign looked very much like Carltonware Rouge Royale. Oddly it sold for far more than I expected. Maybe they just didn't read the description ?? Oddly too I never got feedback for it.

Maybe there's something mesmerizing about Ebay so that people bring their suspension of disbelief directly with them from watching telly. :shrugs:

Back to topic tho, which decade did your two items come from ? Could they have been made shortly after the end of the war ? or from East Germany ? Does have have any theories about the 'Foreign' mark ?

[Lustrousstone]

Did the import regulations actually state that the country of origin had to be marked or just that they had to be marked as being foreign? It's entirely possible that the country of origin was on a paper label I suppose

[Pete]

OK Ive found my notes. The date was out but what I was talking about is in the 3rd para below and related specifically to German imports to UK.

See http://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/0pages/notes.php

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[Lustrousstone]

Which still leaves the option of a paper label to supplement the foreign mark, depending on the requirements of the country you are exporting to