Topic: Sowerby 5004 Sweet Dish / Rd 370378? No correct RD = 355156

[Paul S.]

I think also that with makers like Sowerby, who manufactured and Registered a vast array of shapes and patterns, they may well have considered it not-unreasonable to re-use a No. - or at least some details already Registered - if they were making a new item that was similar to a previous style.   Can't prove this but very good possibility.       Another point is that we're speaking here of a design that - in theory - was made and Registered something like one hundred and forty years back  -  such pieces should show a fair amount of wear - and if not then we might question whether this piece came from a more recent mould.

[LinzC]

I'm inclined to agree Paul.  This dish pops up in various Sowerby pattern books, latest time it's shown is 1927. 

There was another dish introduced around the same time as this one (1880's), same shape but different pattern.  I don't know if the sizes are comparable though. It's always possible the plungers were repurposed. I seem to remember reading somewhere they did that with some of the carnival pieces.