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   From: alan.reeve@btinternet.com   
      
   "Ronnie McKinley"  wrote in message   
   news:qli6009jdl1d1bs2s8n6d4cu5qulpvlmt3@4ax.com...   
   > In rec.antiques  "Net Magazines"  wrote:   
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   > >Not the original Moorcroft, unsigned   
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   > Small pieces are not always signed, therefore because a small piece   
   doesn't   
   > bear a "signature" does not make it "not original."  It can still be a   
   > genuine period **WILLIAM** Moorcroft piece and NOT signed. Small   
   production   
   > line pieces were AFAIK usually unsigned, and larger production line pieces   
   > were signed randomly by William (and later Walter) Moorcroft. Finer high   
   > market pieces were always signed, usually with a full signature, and not   
   as   
   > the lesser pieces, usually with a monogram.   
   >   
   > In the purist sense the important pieces are those made whilst William   
   > Moorcroft was living and still in full in control of the factory and   
   design   
   > shops, both signed pieces and unsigned pieces appear during this period.   
   The   
   > next important phase is when Walter his son took over control and as chief   
   > designer, after his father's death. These pieces also appear signed and   
   > unsigned, by Walter Moorcoft, and can still be very collectable. The   
   random   
   > production line signed pieces can sometimes be hard to tell apart, is it a   
   > William or Walter? as both, father and son, carelessly scrawled random   
   pieces   
   > as they wandered down the production line, with either a quick WM or WM   
   > monogram of very similar style or script, sometimes it's not as easy as   
   just   
   > having a signature.   
   >   
   > However ....   
   >   
   > This piece in my opinion is Walter Moorcoft phase, and it dates   
   c1975-1985,   
   > but NOT because it doesn't bear any signature/monogram  - although the   
   > impressed marks do seem a bit weak for a period piece,and it may   
   originally   
   > have had a paper label, as well -  but mainly because of the flower style   
   > design, palette used, and over all quality, easy not William   .... :)   
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   > Ronnie   
      
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