"Octfpill" ?????

[Gotcha]

I recently found an old vase with the name "Octfpill" England on the bottom....can someone help me out with this please...the spelling on this vase is probably whats throwing me off...I've done a google search and absolutely nothing comes up...Thank you in advance...

[colinjohn]

Can you post an image of the name?

Colin

[nanny jan]

Could the "f" be an "s"?


Nanny Jan

[meles]

An image or description of the vase would be very helpful.

meles

[trish251]

If the f becomes an s (thanks Nanny Jan)  - and a space is inserted  oct spill  - someone else has the same query
http://www.maniccollector.com/pottery/decomantleset.htm

Trish

[guest33104]

Could it be a "spill vase" as in

The dictionary tells us that a vase "is an ornamental container to hold flowers and water", but this is clearly an over-simplified definition. For instance the Spill Vase was designed to be placed on the mantel shelf to hold spills used to take a light from the fire before the days of matches.

http://www.ladymarion.co.uk/book/vases/

google spill vase definition, lots of stuff there

bhc

[PrueM]

SOunds interesting!  Trish, I looked at the pic of the ones you found, and wonder whether the "Oct" is short for "Octagonal", being as how the vases each have 8 sides.

Need a picture, Gotcha! 

Prue

[trish251]

Sounds good Prue & combined with BHC's definition, it seems like an eight sided spill vase - obviously above the fireplace with the matching clock   

Trish

[Gotcha]

the description is as follows...
black with pink and silver speckles...over which is red painted leaves...it almost looks like Chinese or Japanese