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Is Susie Cooper always signed or marked?

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Is Susie Cooper always signed or marked?

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The work produced at A.E.Gray does not always carry a mark declaring ‘Designed By Susie Cooper’ and is a particularly difficult area of her career to establish exactly what designs were by her. There have been many books in recent years which have incorrectly attributed Grays patterns as Susie. (See question above for more details on identifying Grays patterns.) Moving into her first independent years, her early designs carried a triangle mark which was applied by rubber stamp. The mark of the original factory of manufacture is usually obliterated in black enamel. This rubber stamped mark is sometimes very faint or has worn away completely, however there is often still a pattern number of two or three digits, prefixed by the letter E which can help attribute the item as a Susie Cooper piece. By 1932 the famous leaping deer mark had appeared. This along with facsimile copies of her signature used on smaller items were applied to all pieces from her factory almost without exception. So a

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