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Royal Copenhagen Date Marks

 

 

 

1. Dating by backstamp and painter's numbers before 1935 - ROYAL COPENHAGEN

Pre-1900	1894-1900	Pre-1923 with painter's mark	1924-1934 with painter's mark

2. Dating by painter's number or initials - ROYAL COPENHAGEN

Painter's number 1893-1928	Painter's initials lower case till about 1950 (ffx) with the addition of "x"  simply a form of fecit = painted by	Painter's initials upper-case letters  (a few appear before 1950) until present

In the Collector's Guide by Caroline & Nick Pope you will find a list of the known painters with number-signature and their working period at Royal Copenhagen. Also the data of the designing artist will be an important indication of possible age.

3. Dating by backstamp 1935-2004 - ROYAL COPENHAGEN

	Bar above a letter in Royal or Copenhagen		Bar below a letter in Royal, Denmark or Copenhagen		A bar above two letters in Royal
R	1935	R	1950	RO	1985-1991
O	1936	O	1951	RY	1992-1999
Y	1937	Y	1952	RA	1999-2004
A	1938	A	1953	RL	2004-
L	1939	L	1954
C	1940	D	1955
O	1941	E	1956
P	1942	N	1957
E	1943	M	1958
N	1944	A	1959
H	1945	R	1960
A	1946	K	1961
G	1947	C	1962
E	1948	O	1963
N	1959	P	1964
		E	1965
		N	1966
		H	1967
		A	1968
		G	1969-1974
		E	1975-1979
		N	1980-1984

It is possible to date pieces from Bing & Grondahl porcelain looking at the factory mark at the base. B & G, Bing & Grondahl refer to the founders: Fred. Vilh. Grøndahl (1819-1856), technical director; the brothers M.H. Bing (1819 - 1883) and J.H. Bing (1811 -1896) as economical directors. The three towers in the hallmark come from the City of Copenhagen's Coat of Arms.