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.
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>Cheers--
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