Can You Identify My Antique Ginger Jar

by Carole Hughes
(Liverpool, England)

My grandma was given this antique ginger jar in the mid 20's she was in service and the lady of the house gave it to here when she left to start a family. I inherited it when she passed away and it was always kept in the glass cabinet.

That is all we know about it and its just sat in my cabinet ever since my grandma passed away in 1993.

I have always thought i will look into it one day to see if it is an antique.

The only way i can discribe it is like a fancy ginger jar with a motif on the side and writing saying "DUNKERQUE".

The markings underneath are what look like M with a G over it with a line over the top part of the G and 1846.

Can You Identify My Antique Ginger Jar? Any and all help greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Carol.

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Grandma's
by: Susan

I also have Ginger Jars, two matching, one with a cover and one without. They are from my grandmother who traveled to China by boat in the early 1920s.

The pattern colour is burnt orange and there are three different sets of patterns. Vertical stripes at the bottom, flowers with Fleur-de-lys around the middle and at the top there is a band of repeating patterns.

The marking on the bottom read China with two squares one on top of each other and an X on either side.

What do you think I have?

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