Elizabeth-- I have a ginger beer bottle base stamped "Murphy and Buckham/Pottery/Portobello" from a late 19th century context at Fort Johnson, Charleston SC. I haven't been able to trace the company yet, but it might be a good place for you to start... Carl Steen 2/15/2001 7:13:12 AM, Elizabeth Ragan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'm trying to find out which pottery--possibly one in Portobello, Scotland--stamped its late 19th/early 20th century jam jar bases with a symbol that looks like an M with an F on each side: the one to the left is reversed, so that the uprights of the M are also the uprights of the Fs. > >Cheers-- > > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Elizabeth Ragan [log in to unmask] >Anthropology 410-548-4502 >History Department >370 Holloway Hall >Salisbury State University >Salisbury, MD 21801 USA >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >