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Boston harbor in sepia and hand-tint -- masts crowding the waterfront, spires stacked behind them, a couple in the foreground watching it all, ringed by a border of oak leaves and acorns so deeply drawn it reads as carved. | SPECS: Approx. 10 in. dinner plate; white earthenware; brown transfer print with hand-applied polychrome accents in green, blue, and rose; oak leaf, acorn, and honeycomb border. Backstamp reads HISTORIC AMERICA, View of Boston, Massachusetts, Johnson Bros England, PATENT No 111255, REG U.S. PAT OFF, MADE IN ENGLAND, ALL DECORATION UNDER THE GLAZE, PERMANENT AND ACID RESISTING COLORS, A GENUINE HAND ENGRAVING, under a spread-winged American eagle. | DATE: c.1930 to 1974, the production run of the Historic America series. Vintage rather than antique. | HISTORY: Johnson Brothers was founded in Hanley, Staffordshire in 1883 by four brothers who bought a derelict pottery and turned it into one of the great engines of English tableware. Their whole commercial instinct wa