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The Antique Tea Cup Channel - Spode - 01-10-2026 Most of the time when I ask the question of where and who made what I am using to eat or drink, the answer is not very surprising.  But today, I was drinking out of a most unusual cup, and it intrigued me enough as to look for who made it. You see, this cup had a feature that has been out of fashion for over a century, it has a guard over the cup meant to protect a gentleman’s mustache from hot tea. I flipped over the rather large saucer to check for markings and quickly found the following. “DERBY” (indented) “II☉” (indented) A logo depicting a crown above what I would come to learn as being two Ds “CHATSWORTH” A box containing “RdN 56463” A strange symbol with three solid Ts at different orientations embedded into a crescent A "5" (rather faded) I suspected that a resource to identify the cup would exist, and found one with "RCD collections" (here). That homepage links off to a subpage on factory marks which states that it mostly pertains to 1927 through 1961 factory marks for ware produced specifically at Osmaston Road Works. However it contains a reproduction of a table of general date markings from the Royal Crown Derby website. While the indentations briefly confused me, as they looked like they could be year markings, I discarded them believing them to be related to some other element of the manufacture in favor of the painted mark at the bottom of the logo. Those show our symbol as marking this piece as being from 1887! weeee! And, we can see a cup (here) that a seller is putting out as being a 1890s Imari pattern by Royal Crown Derby uses the same flowers!  Which fits, they must've reused the flowers when Imari became popular! There is actually a museum of Royal Crown Derby wares, I might contact them to check if we correctly identified this :> -if i do and they get back to me, I'll add what they had to say here! Thanks for reading!