lafayette porcelain mark

anyone know where this company was from or the years they used this mark?

thanks in advance,cannot find the info online.they must not have made nuch for a very long time??

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lafayette porcelain mark

East Palestine Pottery Co - East Palestine was in Ohio USA.

 

Thanks to Wikipedia:

 

William Shaw George purchased the controlling interest in the East Palestine Pottery Company from the Sebring brothers in 1904, renaming the company The W. S. George Pottery Company. In 1910 the company opened a manufacturing facility in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania ("Plant #2"), and in 1914 another facility was opened in Kittaning, Pennsylvania ("Plant #3"). In 1912 fire destroyed most of the East Palestine, Ohio, facility, named "Plant #1". At the time, "Plant #1" employed 750 East Palestine residents, which accounted for nearly one third of the city's population. The facility was rebuilt in 1924 and was called "Plant #4". In 1955 the company went bankrupt, and the East Palestine facility was reorganized and came under the control and administration of the Royal China Company, who renamed the facility "Royal China Incorporated, East Palestine Division". The company operated for nearly 60 years, liquidating its holdings between 1959-1960, and closing in 1960.

 

See the marks here - dates given 1895-1905. The pattern would be La Fayette - the company appeared to specialise in hotel ware.

 

http://www.brothers-handmade.com/pottery-marks.html

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