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Roseville Pottery Marks - Pottery Conversations Q & A - Episode 1
Introduced in 1935, Pine Cone is one of Roseville's most popular patterns and is considered one of Roseville's middle period lines.
The early 1935 pieces of Pine Cone can be found without any marks other than potentially a foil label or a hand-written crayon mark showing the 3-digit shape number. Pine Cone pieces produced between 1936 and 1939 were marked with the stamped or impressed Roseville script mark and the shape number with size.
Then, in 1940, Roseville changed the trademark to the raised Roseville, USA, shape number and size. This is the mark that most collectors know and expect to see on the bottoms of Roseville pottery.
In the early 1940s, the Pine Cone line was discontinued. However, in 1953-1954, Roseville reintroduced the Pine Cone pattern with a series of shapes called the 400 series. So, any time you see a 400 to 499 shape number on the bottom of Pine Cone that is actually a piece that was produced in either 1953 or 1954.
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