I bought an original clear 8 1/2-inch divided glass baby dish. I know that Tiara made colored reproductions of these.Embossed around the plate’s border are the phrases, “See-saw Margery-Daw” and “Where are you going — my pretty maid.” I am trying to find out who originally owned this pattern glass mold and and when it was made.
A picture says more than a thousand words and my archive contains a little more info by now.
What you have there is a series from [b]Heinrich & Co.[/b] from the city of [i]Selb[/i], the [i]Tiara[/i] mark itself was a mark used only on certain sets. Shown standalone mark (and mark combination with the red [i]H&Co.[/i] mark) was used betweeen 1911 and 1918. Today one would describe it as a “no-name brand” (same/comparable quality, but not true brand marked) which was normally sold cheaper (at least to the distributor/retailer) than true brand ware. That however would be relative – unbranded quality wares were still more expensive than most common brands back then.
Note that the one or other double marking (including the brand mark on one or more pieces from a set of no-name brand mark items) was a typical marketing strategy: the final customer got a hint on who actually created the items but did not have to pay full price while full-brand business relationships (and especially area protection contracts) were not endangered. It was a pretty shifty (but legal) method of undermining existing delivery contracts used by many manufacturers/importers/dealers more or less openly. [i]Rosenthal [/i]for example sold goods on the US market under the much cheaper [i]Stonegate[/i] (and other) brand(s) for decades; [i]Lorenz Hutschenreuther[/i] used [i]Favorite[/i] (and some others), etc. …