Good that you keep and appreciate your family heirlooms !! Glad to assist in a small way !!

Thank you so much to both of you for the outstanding information and the quick response. I’ve always looked at this platter sentimentally as it was given to me by my grandmother; however, now there is a bit of history behind it’s making.

Once again, my thanks for your help.

Cheers!

That’s why you are the expert and I am not !! Hard to follow some of these companies !! Thanks Chris !!

Well, the company background is not so confusing, actually. One part of the story was started in the town of [i]Marktleuthen[/i] by the eldest brother, [i]Heinrich Winterling[/i]. His family disliked the idea and treated him accordingly. Only after he had proven all his critics wrong did his siblings decide that they would follow with their own business, taking over the first factory in [i]Röslau[/i].

The two businesses remained strictly seperated and (with exception of a certain marking type collaboration for marketing purposes) never worked together or shared technology.

[i]Heinrich Winterling[/i] never saw the need for additional production locations, unlike the business of his siblings (as each wanted to play boss at his/her own factory). Hence the factory in [i]Marktleuthen[/i] remained his only production location; his siblings on the other hand operated factories in [i]Kirchenlammitz, Röslau, Schwarzenbach, Windischeschenbach[/i] and [i]Bruchmühlbach[/i].

The whole “Winterling Group” collapsed after a dirty bankruptcy in the year 2000, the factory of [i]Heinrich Winterling[/i] on the other hand decided to cease operations 2010, as one of the few German factories that did not go bankrupt but simply decided that their time was over.

[b]DLLee[/b], shown mark was one of those used by the [i]Gebrüder Winterling[/i] at their factory in the town of [i]Windischeschenbach[/i] and this mark type – merely showing ‘Germany’ as addition – was only used between 1950 and 1955 on certain export items. It’s not “rare” or such, only hard to find as it was not used long enough to leave a larger trail.

This is a very confusing company to me !! It was a family owned business with several different branches from what I can find !! The best source of information is www.porcelainmarksandmore.com !! One of the branches records were lost so no info from that one !! I checked and did not find this particular mark but found a similar with Bavaria rather than Germany !! Could be that your mark was used by the part that lost the records !! Chris Marshall is an expert on porcelain of that region and the owner of the above site !! He can tell you more accurately about your mark and when it was used !! Perhaps he will stop in and look at it !! My feeling from the shape and the design is that it is from around 1960 or so !! Give or take a few years either way !!