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Monmouth mark: MONMOUTH / ILL / USA / OVENPROOF
Mark details
- Maker
- Monmouth →
- Period
- Undated
- Wording
- MONMOUTH / ILL / USA / OVENPROOF
- Appearance
- Narrow lobed leaf with diagonal MONMOUTH and an OVENPROOF line outside the leaf.
- Type
- moulded
- Material
- stoneware
- Place
- Monmouth, Illinois, United States
Dating cue
Diagonal name and separate OVENPROOF line differ from the broad three-line impressed-leaf format.
Notes
The maker field distinguishes the original company from the later retained Monmouth name.
Other Monmouth marks
Undated
MONMOUTH POTTERY CO. / MONMOUTH, ILL. [with 12 above]
The full POTTERY CO. name separates this from later MONMOUTH ILL USA leaf stamps.
Undated
MONMOUTH / ILL / USA
No POTTERY CO. wording; broad leaf surrounds the shorter MONMOUTH ILL USA text.
Undated
MONMOUTH POTTERY / WILL NOT LEAK
Printed WILL NOT LEAK label appears on artware rather than the clay-impressed leaf.