Nope, your dish looks pretty old to me.
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From: "Richard Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: Question about a dish


> This stoneware dish was found in Australia during earth moving on a
> building site for a new house. It was in a layer that also contained
ceramic
> ginger beer bottles that date from around the 1880s. Nothing more
> recent was found.
>
> http://www.box.net/shared/static/1a56q6mipm.JPG
>
> The dish must have had a lid that rested on its internal rim. There are no
maker's marks.
>
> My neighbour is asking me - because I am a forensic archaeologist. I have
told
> him that the gold design looks too abstract to date from the period of
> the 1880s. I would have guessed the dish is no earlier than the 1920s.
>
> Is my impression correct?