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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Zarkian on January 16, 2009, 08:06:37 PM

Title: Help Identify Pottery Piece of Dutch Girl w/Sailboats
Post by: Zarkian on January 16, 2009, 08:06:37 PM
I've added a couple of other and hopefully better pictures that may help piece together the origins of this piece  -- thanks for looking.

I have a few pottery antiques left to me by my mother and grandmother.  Among them is very old, small pottery piece that has a hand-painted Dutch girl with three boats behind her.  Mom told me it was given to her as a girl by an old woman  ???who came to America from Holland.  I'm not sure if it was intended to be a cup or a small flower pot.  It has the word "Volendam" along the outside of the base and underneath, it has several etched-in markings that appear to be 1/1/2 and A B or perhaps A/3 and 1144 or 114L and T.SL or P.SL it also says "made in Holland".  I learned that Volendam was a small fishing village in the Netherlands.  Would anyone have any ideas on the history of my little Dutch girl and who might have made her?  Thanks in advance!