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Re Gray Bouquet
Saw a very large platter in this design at my local Hospice Shop, took a photo but see the design is in the gallery from Honjon.The one I saw measured 305mm dia.
Ev, attached to the gallery photo is a note saying you have seen this spelt grEy & grAy in museum records as on this back stamp and I see that there is another use of the A spelling today in reference to some mugs.
I was always of the understanding that grEy is the colour & grAy is a surname?? but this may just be another CL quirky mystery.
But I now realise that the backstamp is different to the one on the gallery which is rather hard to read. here is the one on the platter mentioned above. I seem to recall that FORMA pieces often had very little information on the BS.
![Re Gray Bouquet Gray_b10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/17/72/27/62/gray_b10.jpg)
Ev, attached to the gallery photo is a note saying you have seen this spelt grEy & grAy in museum records as on this back stamp and I see that there is another use of the A spelling today in reference to some mugs.
I was always of the understanding that grEy is the colour & grAy is a surname?? but this may just be another CL quirky mystery.
But I now realise that the backstamp is different to the one on the gallery which is rather hard to read. here is the one on the platter mentioned above. I seem to recall that FORMA pieces often had very little information on the BS.
![Re Gray Bouquet Gray_b10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/17/72/27/62/gray_b10.jpg)
Last edited by Jonno on Sun 1 Nov - 15:15; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Add Backstamp.)
Jonno- Number of posts : 662
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Re: Re Gray Bouquet
Thanks Jonno, I have noticed that on all of this pattern it is spelt Gray on the stamp and I think it would have been an office slip up re the spelling of Grey in the records as I haven't found any pieces with that spelling. Thanks for bringing this to light ![Smile](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_smile.gif)
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Re: Re Gray Bouquet
They may have been looking to the American market with that American spelling.
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Jeremy Ashford- Number of posts : 3193
Location : Whangarei, New Zealand
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