Antique Early H. Aynsley Longton ABC Sign Language Child's Plate Children's Tea
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| Management number | 28653996 | Release Date | 2025/12/18 | List Price | $133.65 | Model Number | 28653996 | ||
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Antique Early H.Aynsley Longton ABC Sign Language Child's Plate Rd # 426673 Tea Party
Size: Approximately 6.5" round. Age related wear. (See Photos)
From COLLECTIBLES : Dishing Up History on Alphabet Pottery
The first alphabet plates were made in potters' paradise--Staffordshire, England, around 1830--and quickly won the hearts of parents on both sides of the Atlantic, perhaps because they sold for pennies. Industrious English potters produced wagonloads of ABC plates but viewed children's earthenware as clumsy, unworthy of makers' marks.
The absence of trademarks also helped makers fly below copyright radar. Some plate backs, however, carry a pottery's secret seal of approval: coded letters, initials or numbers.
"Sometimes you find an anchor impress," says Britton, "which tells us that the plate is from the mid-1870s."
Believed to be part of a 1904 campaign on behalf of the deaf, rare sign-language plates show hands forming the manual alphabet.
On the underside, look for the ma
| Category | Vintage & collectibles > Antique > 100 years or older |
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| Size | N/A |
| Brand | Aynsley |
| Condition | Good |
100 years or older
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