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david Posts: 16 Registered: Dec 2004	posted 05-28-2007 07:24 AM [26-1417] Can anyone please help with this Towle fork? I cannot trace the pattern- -I think I've looked on nearly every site listing Towle patterns. My guess (stylistically) is that it dates from between 1880 and 1910 but has no date mark to support this. Any help gratefully received. David IP: Logged
Dale Posts: 2132 Registered: Nov 2002	posted 05-28-2007 11:16 AM This looks very much like Towle's Pomona, 1885. The pattern is a multi-motif one. What sort of piece do you have? This would greatly help narrow the search. Towle also made a number of special patterns that appear to have no names. IP: Logged
rian Posts: 169 Registered: Jan 2006	posted 05-28-2007 12:21 PM I think this one is Towle's Orchid, Dale. Pomona has a mixed fruit motif. Also 1880s, though. IP: Logged
park1226 Posts: 102 Registered: Jun 2005	posted 05-28-2007 12:23 PM I believe that this is a piece of the circa 1887 "Orchid" pattern. Ref to Turner page 118 or the Replacement's Ltd site shows many of the pieces offered in this pattern. It is a multi motif pattern and most of the flowers do not look like orchids! The common theme throughout all the pieces is the swrilled circular background Hope this helps. IP: Logged
david Posts: 16 Registered: Dec 2004	posted 05-28-2007 03:31 PM Thank you Dale, Rian & Park... Orchid has exactly the same background though not the exact flower (mine is more like a sunflower). If there are other flowers in the range I guess this is it. The replacements list also showed me that I had an oyster fork. Many thanks David IP: Logged

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