posted on November 1, 2007 06:28:54 PM new
I'm hoping against hope that someone here will magically know the name of this Noritake pattern. I hate to think of wading through all the pages of patterns in Replacements. I'll post 3 photos here.
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posted on November 1, 2007 07:33:12 PM new
See if it isn't "Evana."
I don't envy you at all on searching for the pattern. We run into so many that it's nearly impossible - then when you do find it, you learn that it's a "flippin'" number rather than a name.
I can tell you that the backstamp indicates it was made in 1933.
We recently ran across a 1912 version of the Noritake #175 pattern - also refered to as "Christmas Ball" because of it's ornate gilding... We paid $8.80 at one of the local auction houses, because like most of the auctioneers around here - he doesn't know anything about Noritake. And, because no one else in the room did either. When it was held up, he proclaimed -- "Here's another piece of Nippon for ya..."
We were pleasantly suprised at its popularity as it sold for $171.00 to someone who paid with a Money Order (God Bless her...) saving us the extra fee from PayPal in the process.
If anyone runs into enough of it to care, Replacements put out a pretty good hard cover book in 2001 - Noritake - Jewel of the Orient
Wayne
Never explain -- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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posted on November 1, 2007 11:06:18 PM new
Thanks, Wayne. Hmmm. Now what to do. I got 5 plates and some other nice assorted pieces in this pattern for $8 total, so it's not a lot of money out of my pocket.
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posted on November 1, 2007 11:17:58 PM new
DANG, YOU'RE GOOD! It IS Evana. Holy cow, how did you do that? You've just saved me a lot of time and effort; thanks a bunch.
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posted on November 2, 2007 09:04:54 AM new
That was good Wayne. I think I will look for that book too. I'm always running into Noritake and it will usually sell well IF you know the pattern.
The key is to find those marks that people don't know they are Noritake. We seem to run into a lot of it around here - and many from the early 20th Century that didn't even have the "M" for the Morimura Bros.
If you remember Alan (who used to post here under an ID I can't even remember) - he helped us with photo copies of the marks and we paid him for the cost of the copies. It was a big help for dating the earlier pieces - but you can find much of it online now simply Googling "Noritake Backstamps" or "Noritake Marks" - but we still refer to it every once in a while.
posted on November 3, 2007 06:22:00 AM new
Here is another great website that has the PHOTO PATTERNS of different CHINA. This pattern they had as unidentified...but stills gives some prices. I found it a little easier to use then REPLACEMENTS...because you can see more patterns all at once. www.robbinsnest.com
