Description
For your consideration is this Harker Pottery Co Semi-Porcelain advertising plate. The advertising mark states “Compliments from the store that appreciates your trade. J. A. Lindgren, Monticello, Minn.” There are white and rose-colored flowers with tiny white daisies. Leaves are green and gray. The background is rosy-pink, green, gold, and ivory. There is a raised pattern around the outer edge of this shaped edge. The edge is gilded, but the guilding is wearing in several places. The stamp of the back of the plate dates it to c1890 and is Harker Pottery’s first marking. There is crazing throughout the entire plate and there are a few dimples. Please see the pictures for more details.
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