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Monday, September 13, 2010

Porsgrund "The Old Story"

The middle dish was my grandma's, and it wasn't until recently that I discovered it was part of a set.  The three dishes were made by the Porsgrund porcelain company and are called "The Old Story."  The first shows a couple like Adam and Eve, complete with apple tree and snake.  Next the couple have a small child, a house, and a cat.  Finally, the couple is older and joined by their children and grandchildren.  The dishes were designed by Anne Marie Odegaard and Konrad Galaaen and are glazed in a flow-blue-like glaze.  Apparently the three dishes were sold together in a box with a short poem called "The Old Story."


Each of my three dishes has a different mark on the back.  Each dish has the Porsgrund logo with the anchor, PP, and Norway.  The other two dishes have the years of manufacture:  70 and 68.  Each dish also has it's code number:  All of them have M.2303; under that they have (from left to right) D.78009, D.78010, and D.78011.