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Posted by Nancy Barshter
on March 12, 2009, 10:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Is this transferware?"
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Allerton produced 3 similar patterns in children's teasets that all featured the same little girl. (Her name was May -- short for Mabel, an Allerton family name -- and it is sometimes spelled Mae). In the most common of the 3 patterns, she is sitting on steps with a cat and dog and a kitten on her lap...That pattern is commonly known as Mae with Pets or Girl on Steps. There's another pattern with her standing with her arms around a huge dog...that pattern is usually called Mae with Dog or Girl with Dog. The third pattern, which is the least common, shows her standing on a road with a farmhouse behind her. She is wearing an apron, and looks to be carrying an apronful of eggs. She's wearing a hat and one of her socks is falling down. When the set is marked, it is marked with the pattern name "MAY", though the pattern is usually referred to as "May with Apron". I'm sure that that's the pattern on your teaset. These sets were made in large quantities in red, blue, brown, and teal green, and occasionally polychrome, in several different shapes. They were made mainly for export to the U.S. where they were marketed through the Sears catalogs, making them very popular during the 1880s-1890s; a few sets were made as late of 1907, when the factory was sold to Cauldon.
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