Can Anyone Identify this Trademark?

[Diane Watterson]

Hi, I am new here & am hoping someone can help me. We were cleaning my my mother in laws house after she died. My husband picked up a broken vase-like porcelin item. I have been looking at this thing for a while now and the trademark is odd. I tried looking it up, but didn't have any luck.

Does anyone recognize this?

Thanks in advance....

Diane

 

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[Mackaydon]

Welcome to Treasurenet !!
My thoughts:
Is the perferated image actually a stamp--like a postage stamp?
The flag with a circle reminds me of the flag of Japan.
The crescent moon with star is an Islamic symbol.
Don.......

 

[Red-Coat]

I know this is an old post and the OP is likely long gone but I was browsing around and the ID may help someone in future.

The mark is that of A.A. Vantine & Company. Ashley A. Vantine (sometimes written as Van Tine) came to New York in 1860 and established himself as an importer of Oriental goods.

The business grew out of Yokohama in Japan as its supply base and ultimately had its own factories in both Yokohama and Nagoya, as well as expanding its sourcing to other countries. The crossed Imperial Chinese and Japanese flags with the Turkish crescent moon and star are a reflection of the trading relationships with those three countries. That particular mark within a perforated stamp dates from c1910 through to the 1920s.

 

[villagenut]

Redcoat... you are our cold case sleuth and we all appreciate that, thank you.

 

[Mackaydon]

I'm still with you Red Coat !!
Around the 1840s Ashley A. Vantine (sometimes Van Tine) started a provision and supply business in San Francisco. He continued in California until 1869, when he came to New-York and established himself in the Oriental goods business, opening his first shop for oriental wares in New York in 1869 on Broadway, near Eighth-street. A few years later he moved to 831 Broadway, and from there, in 1883, to 879 Broadway. Mr. Vantine traveled a great deal, particularly to China and Japan, crossing the Pacific sixteen times and made six visits to Turkey and Southern Russia. The company seems to have began their business in Yokohama, Japan, already in 1865 for the purpose of manufacturing wares for export to the West. The business seems to have shut down around 1951.
Source: Japanese Porcelain Marks
Don.....

 

[Mackaydon]

The member came on once only; pity.
Don......