Dating
your Plates
 Valerie:
Janet has an important lesson for all of you who have plates…
English plates.
Janet Carlile:
English plates. Or even French plates, or German plates. If you
see the word “England” or “France” or “Germany”,
it means it dates after 1891 when President McKinley introduced
a tariff on foreign goods being imported into the States. So it
had to have the name of the country in English on the back. After
the turn of the Century it often changed to “Made in England”.
But from 1891 to 1900 that word tells you that it dates to that
time.
Valerie: So
prior to 1891 what would you have seen?
 Janet
Carlile: Sometimes you would see the town name or the city
name. Sometimes you might see “England” on it but not,
not very often.
Valerie: So
if you see “England” or “France” or “Made
in…” you know it’s not incredibly old,
Janet Carlile:
That’s right, absolutely.
Valerie: And
what would you see now on a plate – is it the same rules still
in effect?
 Janet
Carlile: You would see “Made in…” It
was put into stone in 1921 when another Tariff Act was passed saying
that it had to say “Made in…” and that protected
all the American manufacturing industry.
Valerie: Isn’t
that interesting? Simply tariffs, it’s all about this beautiful
plate, but that is really interesting to know so go home and look
at your china and you’ll be able to tell how old it is because
of that. It’s very useful.
Janet Carlile:
It is.
Valerie: Thank
you.
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