Fair enough, but are you going by form or decoration?

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>Subject: Re: Question about a dish
>   From: Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]>
>   Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:52:32 -0700
>     To: [log in to unmask]
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>Nope, your dish looks pretty old to me.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:48 PM
>Subject: Question about a dish
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>> 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?