When tea wares were "escorted" across the pond!

Way back in 2008, I posted this photo of a teapot that had recently been given to me by my mom, who was redecorating and decided to get rid of it. Well, time marched on, and I got prettier teapots and got rid of this one myself. I had assumed it was Japanese, but from the old blog post, I apparently didn't take a photo of the back stamp, so who knows.

But what I do know is that I was most intrigued when reader Diane M. emailed me a link to this article from kovels.com, featuring a similar teapot that has the fascinating back stamp, "World War II, Made in England, Escorted to United States by the Allied Fleets." I'm quite sure my old teapot didn't have that mark, because I certainly would have latched on to that story, and I would love to come across such a teapot with the original hang tag!

If you enjoy WWII history as much as I do, be sure to click on the link above and read the full entry, as I learned a few things that I definitely did not know before!