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Michigan Designated a Specific "First Edition"
"Twelve centre designs chiefly depict "entrances" to the University of Michigan. The old
graduate finds magic in these pictures of entrance gates and doorways, which take him
back in imagination to his own college days. The border design of these splendid
Michigan plates is the work of Professor Titcomb and is dominated by the university
seal. The plates are thrice divided by medallions of Michigan fruits, the basis of the
border being the Michigan grape-both the fruit and the vine. We employed a
conventional secondary border to relieve the circle and to aid in securing a softness for
the plate as a whole. The University of Michigan was the first to designate a specific
first edition by numbering and by the use of the autograph [in facsimile] of the president
of the university."
From "Commemorative Plates by Wedgwood", a pamphlet published in 1931 by
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, the major US china importer of the time, based in Boston.
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