antique vintage mossy green pitcher,Ridgway/Ridgeway,Staffordshire bamboo/rope

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Understamping reads "Published by W. Ridgway & Co., October 1, 1836
Although the understamping on this remarkable 8 inch Staffordshire pitcher indicates that it was registered 1836.  I see another one just like it was recently for sale, claiming to date from 1836.  No way.  I do not see one chance in the universe that this pitcher or the one just like it dates to 1836.  This particular one has been stashed away in year 2000 newspaper since I put it there, but I suspect was maybe 10 or 20 years old when I stashed it away.  I believe they are both reproductions of the original 1836 pieces.  Condition is tooooo excellent, too crisp if you know what I mean.  The 1836 pieces would have been used and used and used.  The bisque finish would have absorbed the stains of foods and beverages and been discarded long ago.  The understamping from 1836 would have been vastly different.  Sooooo, what we have here is a splendid vintage reproduction.  Just recently, while sitting on the shelf, a split has appeared at the rim.  If you look at one side of the split, it looks like a chip that was glued back in place, but it does not continue around, so it is not anything glued on.  The split, if that's what it is, is only split on one side, odd, like a firing split.
This week, we are having a few nice days and I am taking the opportunity to open my 26 foot trailer and drag out things that haven't been touched in years.  The newspaper dates from 2000 and around here it's pretty much like Christmas.  I have hundreds of things to list that I had in Rhode Island before I hit the road trucking.  They were saved for the future, which I guess has arrived.  We are in our house now and it won't hold near the stuff I had hoped to keep forever.  This is the first piece to come out of the boxes.  I am packed nearly to the roof in that 26 footer, so it should be interesting.
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I ship by FedEx and the post office, depending on cost and whether I think one can handle your package better than the other. ...............Good job, you found the listing. So many of my shoppers are pretty new. Here are a few things that no one will probably tell you, but EVERYone will expect you to know. Customer Service is something that we have a right to expect when we are shoppers. All stores have a CS Department and it is busy all the time. If you require CS in this life, that does NOT mean that life sucks and the store sucks and your experience has been rotten. If it did, there would be no stores open anywhere in the world or else CS would have to put up bullet proof kiosks, right? As a shopper, your responsibilities, along with paying of course, include reading your email. Is your email address on file current??? CS issues sometimes arise prior to shipping. Maybe the wind crashes a shelf and your item is broken, no longer available. It would be best if the seller could inform you prior to that angry email from you that says , Hey, where's my stuff??? There are all sorts of reasons for a seller to contact you, things that don't come up in a face to face purchase. So, the shopping is easy, but check your SPAM/BULK filters for emails that could be important. Most of us are running little part time businesses. We work alone, have no fill in employee, and thanks to the internet, we make things available to folks all over the world, things we could never afford to truck around to some place where you might notice it. We all want things to go smoothly and we're all learning as we go. OK, now have a good time. Eva . . . . . . . . . . .. Now, you'd think I didn't have to say this, but read the doggone listing. If I sell you a "pink vase", don't say you're upset because it is pink. If I sell a pattern called "smooth Edwardian" don't say you don't want it because it is smooth. Really, I have had this happen. If the name of the pattern is in CAPS and your objection is because you didn't read the name in the item title and didn't look at the picture, don't tell ebay the "item is not as described". Really. I don't invent this stuff, it really happens. Oh, and items received broken are a claim, not a "return because the item is not as described." You may not realize that ebay has penalties against sellers who deliver items that are not as described. If the package is smashed, it is a claim, not a return. We are both victims when there is a claim. "Not as described" implies that the seller was trying to cheat you in some way............And now we come to the RETURNS issue. I am not the Mall. Don't shop to pump up your endorphins and then expect cash back to pay your rent. Wrong items are my headache. Broken items are claims that we work together to deal with. Returns of frivolous shopping binges are YOUR problem. Shipping BOTH ways will be YOUR problem. You will receive a merchandise credit, NEVER CASH. If I lose some of you here, well, my work is done.
Just in case I have been unclear in any way - 1 in every 20 packages has some sort of damage, maybe something is shattered, maybe a single cup has a handle cracked. This is a Customer Service issue. Arriving damaged is not a complaint situation, not an attempt to ruin your life, not a conspiracy to defraud you of and certainly no reason to call a package "not as described." As a rule, my policy is that I make a refund for what has been damaged upon receipt of a digital picture of the item broken beyond usefulness. Why? A. It saves you the return postage that was standard procedure in the days before digital pictures. B. What earthly good would it do me to get a broken item back. C. A teensy crack might not show up in a picture that might transfer as 2 inches square on a screen, so let's whack it beyond usefulness and make it obvious to me. Sometimes when there is breakage, I actually find replacement pieces with another seller and make the purchase and get them shipped directly to you. With my type of inventory, each damage claim is dealt with differently, as the situation demands. If you are unwilling to handle a possible damage claim in this fashion, shop with another seller, please, please, please. Have a nice life, but stay out of my store. After you argue about how you really want a refund and want to keep your purchase also, what am I to think? I do everything I possibly can to dissuade fruitcakes from purchasing in my store, not because fruitcakes are no fun, but because they are the first people to complain to ebay that I want them to do something unreasonable like prove the item is really broken. If you are judgement impaired by whatever legal or illegal chemical means, please be irrational elsewhere. Plenty of stuff out there.