I have two covered cheese plates. #1. Plate is 8 1/2 long and 7"wide. It is cream colored with green flowered border. The slanted top is cream, with green flowered trim on top and daisy flowers, various colors on side. Inside the cover are the numbers 172. Underneath the plate are the following markings: a picture of a tower from a castle, with the letters A and an upside down V, or the letter A without the line in the middle, then the word Bonn and underneath that Germany. Then stamped into the plate is the same A and V letters in a circle, and underneath the circle are the letters BX.

#2. Plate is 10" long and 8" wide. Cream colored with pale green fleur de lys relief design. The slanted top is cream, with pale green color on top, with purple, yellow, dark blue flowers on top and sides. On the top there are 3 bunches of flowers. One bunch of flowers is on the right hand side, next to the handle, the other 2 bunches of flowers are on the left side, one at the top and one at the bottom. Underneath the plate there are no markings. Inside the cover is a circle. At the top of the circle is written Stoke CN Trent, inside the circle is a star with a large letter C and inside the C the word BROS. On one side of the word BROS is the word Trade and on the other is the word Mark. At the bottom of the circle is written Staffordshire. Underneath the circle is written England and underneath that the letter A

Anything you can tell me about these two cheese plates, how old, history, value, etc. would be appreciated. Thank you.

-- Tanya Crandall (bentanya@dsdial.net), January 15, 2000