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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000
From: speckhan-hahn@t-online.de (speckhan-hahn@t-online.de)We have been to your MiJ-site for the first time. It's absolutely amazing. What wonderful items you have in your collection .
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Height = 6" and Length = 8 1/4"Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000
From: "Michael Hewlett" <mh4@seanet.com>G'morning....
I bought my wife a Scotty piece for Christmas, and it is stamped "Made in Occupied Japan". I was wondering if you could give me an idea of how long the pieces from Japan were marked this way.
Thanks...Michael Hewlett
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Scooters & Scotty's.........Nothing else countsKate's answer:
Hi Michael!
Pieces were marked "Occupied Japan" for only a short period of time between August 1947 and April of 1952 , when Japan was once again allowed to engage in the export trade after World War II.
There was no exchange of goods during the war, but prior to that time a number of stamps were used, such as "Made in Japan", "Japan", etc. Following the end of the U.S. Occupation of Japan, the "Made in Occupied Japan" stamp was no longer required, and Japanese ceramic companies returned to the use of their old backstamps, or in some cases paper labels.
In response to our question concerning the origins of our "smoking Scottie", we received this message:
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999
From: Nancy Aaron & Kay Wooldridge <kaynan@tcsn.net>...we are probably the zillionith collectors to respond to your inquiry about origin, background, on the brown Cigarette "holder." We have one of those, identical to the one you pictured. Ours is ink mark stamped on the bottom "JAPAN." We were told, somewhere along the long, long line of collecting, that it is a hand-held cigarette ash receiver. If you hold it so the nose fits into the web between the thumb and first finger, the open mouth is in the position to hold the ashes of the cigarette.
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