Topic: FBS mark (French, Scottish, Italian & Czech glass) ... Solved - See Post 88

[krsilber]

The "1" on the pottery mark is Continental, would never be used in the US.  That might argue for a European distributor.

[Lustrousstone]

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The "1" on the pottery mark is Continental, would never be used in the US.  That might argue for a European distributor.

It was made in Italy, it would be marked at source for "FBS"

[Frank]

Bl :kissy: dy Foreign Signature   

[flying free]

well it might not be a foreign sig Frank.  Could it be that they marked with the mark of the retailer they were sending to? Who could of course, be anywhere.  Or is that unlikely?
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[flying free]

I'm also wondering if there is a significance in the 'Y' in that mark?
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[TxSilver]

An Aussie friend of Alfredo's suggested OFO may mean "of foreign origin" and BFS may mean "by foreign state." He thought these marks might have been related to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (USA) that required all imported things have a permanent mark of their origin. Still nothing definite, but the marks are forming a fan club of people looking.

[Lustrousstone]

Frank was making a joke with BFS. It's not a signature; it's a mark of some sort M; the question who or what was it for and what does it stand for.

[flying free]

yes I know that  :sun:  I was genuinely questioning the Y in the mark.  And also the fact that the letters could stand for a retailer they were supplying.
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[Lustrousstone]

The retailer idea is one option, we just don't know who or where.

[flying free]

   now I have re read and actually digested the thread.
Sorry for stating the obvious 
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