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Logo on a broken plate from the flow

Logo on a broken plate from the flow , can anyone identify it ?
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Picture added on 06 April 2011 at 21:59
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As a landlubber I'm sticking my neck well out here, but that's the coronet shared by both the Royal Navy and British Merchant Navy cap-badges (though mechant navy shipping companies weren't obliged to use it). So I would guess this piece of porcelain was produced for the Royal Navy, but by whom I haven't discovered. I dare say more than one company produced ceramics to RN specifications.
Added by Ian Hourston on 07 April 2011
That's the 'naval crown' as used by the Royal Navy ... look here:
www.royalnavy.mod.uk/training-and-people/the-rn-today/ship-s-badges-and-flags/ship-s-badges/the-naval-crown/index.htm

used as backstamp on a piece of a HMS's porcelain
Added by Wolfgang Schlick on 07 April 2011
thanks for the info , the crown was on the inside and the makers mark on the bottom was an anchor but the name was on the bit of the plate I didn't get !
Added by John Wells on 09 April 2011
The anchor mark originally belonged to Chelsea manufacturers but was often copied in later times. For the time in question I would suggest to search after Longton (Industrial porcelain factory Anchor Porcelain C°. Ltd.), Longport and their mother company Davenport. As far as I know all of them worked for the Navy at some times.
Added by Wolfgang Schlick on 11 April 2011
there is a snippet of writing left which would match your theory , thanks
Added by John Wells on 12 April 2011
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