I think we are running into potential confusion
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- I didn't think that I had implied there were two marks showing as plural - it was just the pickle showing the 's' - which, as an apparent plural, is unlike all the other back stamps from this output. At work now so I can't verify, but from my rather poor memory, all the books show marks that are upright scripts, whereas the pickle (in more ways than one
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, and my piece from the other day, show scripts that are more italicised. Anyway, you have both dispelled my hopes that the suggested 'tureen' base was back stamped in 1908
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Feel it is a fair guesstimate to say that both of 'my' marks are prior to 1926, since neither are shown in any books that I have seen. However, I now know that cut pieces, just like the pressed ones, can have many decades in production, so thanks to both of you for that. I guess that if I do have a tureen base, then I must now go looking for its lid.