Aha! Found it. It's another of Dohrmann's companies, but none of the ones I mentioned. Check out Parmelee-Dohrmann, which was a china distributor in LA. It looks like it sometimes was spelled with a hyphen and sometimes not; you might be able to narrow the date range by that. Here's the finding aid for the papers at the Bancroft: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf100001g2&chunk.id=c000104&brand=oac And here's a mark (still not yours, but getting closer) so you can see how the words lay out: http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/mall/forest/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=55&pic=7&products_image_large_additional=images/large/franks1_08_LRG.jpg&zenid=b903b891aeee68f0edffcc324068d1a4 Michelle Stacey Camp wrote: > Greetings histarchers, > > I am looking for some more information on two ceramic vessels excavated from my site in historic Los Angeles. Just to give you a quick background, my site was occupied primarily by Mexican immigrants working on the famous Mount Lowe Railway between 1906 and 1938. > > The first vessel is a brown stoneware fragment with a unique molded design. Does anyone happen to know where this vessel was made and it's approximate date of circulation/production? Here are some photos: > http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/brownstoneware1 > http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/brownstoneware3 > > The second fragment is a partial maker's mark from a whiteware fragment that reads: "...G(C?)LA.../...E DOHRMAN.../...S ANGELE...") > http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/dohrmanlosangeles > http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/dorhmanlosangeles1 > > Many thanks in advance for any and all help! > > Stacey Camp > [log in to unmask] > www.stanford.edu/~scamp/mountlowe > > > -- *************** Michelle Touton Project Manager Network Administrator --------------- Archeo-Tec 5283 Broadway Oakland, CA 94618 Phone: (510) 601-6185 Fax: (510) 601-8203 http://www.archeo-tec.com
