Tea Cup Tuesday-Backstamps part 3

 Hello All!

Welcome to another Tea Cup Tuesday!!!

Yay!

Martha and I are still going strong in the tea cup department.

I have run out of new ones...

So I am being very creative :  )

I am going to apologize for the length of this post.

I try to keep all my posts short and sweet,

but there is so much to share here, I allowed the length!

Hope that is o.k. : )

The first cup I am featuring today was gifted to me by a very kind and artistic blogger who I met while I was with Marie Antoinette Mail Art Ning Group, Terri Gordon.
(I love that group and miss them!)

I was thrilled to receive it! It really is a romantic cup!
I love the flowers and the little raised dots around the base.
Terri creates the most lovely of art
Visit her blog at  Terri Gordon Designs.

I know it has been a couple years or more
Terri, but I am still thankful for your lovely gift! 

Thank you!

This was a well loved cup.

Some of the pattern has been rubbed off with daily use.

This may have been someones favorite tea cup to drink from!

It has a sweet little rose on the back.

I find it fascinating to look at the backstamps of tea cups. 

Backstamps were marked in several different ways,

besides the transfer method onto a slip of paper and then on to the porcelain,

or the impressed or incised method we saw in my last weeks post...

some backstamps were actually stamped on. 

And this cup is a good example.

I can feel the stamp image on the bottom of this cup

It is definitely over the glazing.

 

I also found the bottom of the cup fascinating for another reason.

Look at the arrows in the image above,

see the uneven line? 

It goes all around, and looks to be the edge of poured glaze!

I have not seen a cup like this before. 

It is not uniform, it is jagged. 

And the other arrow points to the area outside of the pool of glaze, and it is dry.

A tiny bit of the backstamp is sticking out from under the glaze at one side. 

The backstamp reads Bavaria 125 (?),

I have heard that if a cup says Bavaria it was created in the 20th century for the American Market, and if it was not, it said Bayerishe (German for Bavaria). If you have a cup with this name on it, then it was made in the 19th century.

So, my question to the Experts out there is...

How unusual is it to see a glazing job on the bottom of a cup like this? 

Do any of you know the manufacturing process for this?

(and does anyone but me find it interesting LOL!!!)

This cup here is from France...

I brought it home as it was the first cup I found that had two backstamps.

It caused me to learn, so I thought it deserved a place in my home.

I now know, that one stamp is the manufacturers (B &Co Limoges)

and one is the stamp for the store they created it for...Wright Tyndale and Van Roden in Philadelphia, and this stamp is under the glazing, where the manufacturer's stamp is under the glaze.

This cup was given to me by my dear friend Cheryl in England. 

It had been in her family for many years.

It too, has two backtamps.

Only this time, the second backstamp does not say "made for" but is just another backstamp by the look of it. I had to do some research to find out...

Hard to read on the cup!

 But the plate has a better view as the two backstamps do not overlay as much.

Here you can see the word Lawleys stamped more clearly. 

I found that Lawley's was a regent street retailer of fine china in London, years ago.

This cup and saucer were made especially for this company to sell in their shop.

Tuscan China (the green backstamp) is the actual manufacturer.

There seems to be a Lawley's in Blackpool, Lancashire still.

Do any of my English readers know of this shop?
Do you remember them being open in London? 

One reason I adore tea cups is that I enjoy drinking tea!

The two above are my current favorites from Tin Roof Teas.

All organic, yum!

My new favorite tea strainer...

Worth every penny as it catches all the tiny pieces of herbs.

And just look at the sentiment on the rim....

Isn't it lovely that tea is beautiful as well as aromatic and delicious???

It is a feast for the eyes as well as the soul!

What ever is going on in your world today,

I wish you the very best moments,

and hugs of love.

Thank you all so very much for stopping by to visit!

I totally appreciate you being here, 

And I love to read your comments!

IF you would love to join in and share your tea cup or something about tea cups, then link your post up below and Martha and I will come visit you : )

Hugs,

Terri