Comprehensive!?  Oh boy!  350 ceramic marks from 
112 different manufacturers!  Unless its three 
hundred and fifty marks not covered by Godden, 
Kovel and Kovel, Barber, or Gates and Ormerod 
(?), what's the point?

Searchable? Probably would have been a lot more 
useful to create a searchable database for what's 
already out there ... and its a lot more than 350 
marks.

I might be wrong, but I have serious doubts.

Mark




>How "comprehensive" can this be? Just looking at 
>the first source on my shelf (Kovel and Kovel 
>1986) they claim to identify "over 3500" marks, 
>and even that doesn't cover everything....
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