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Anybody recognize this mystery mark?

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Glasshound:
This one has me stumped...

/Blair

Frank:
Can you show the piece too :)

Glasshound:
it's a "secret"...Sshhhhhhhhh!  :wink:

KevinH:
Sorry, I can't identify it ... but I have an item with the same mark, which has good indications of some age.

Vase, 10 inch height, 5 1/4 inch widest. Cased blue over white. Most of the body covered with hand-applied white enamel decoration within and over a now-hard-to-see gilded decorative lattice pattern. Many of the separate dots of enamel are still visibly covered with a small dot of gilding. There is also a worn gilded line around the lower part of the body just above the base.

The mark is gilded (?) and there is, in the right lighting, a clear, but feint, rectangle of "dark residue" around the mark as if it was transfer applied but somehow the clear part of the transfer left its own mark or stain.

Full view:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3218

Detail of gilded enamel decoration:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3217

Base view, showing the mark:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3216

Shaky closeup view of the mark:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3215

I have had this for well over 10 years and never discovered its origins, although I guessed it was probably French.

Ron:
From my scribbled notes it's Alnin (or Alvin) & Co., France.

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