R & M Antique Blue Polychrome Transferware Staffordshire Thanksgiving Tom Turkey Platter

 Here's an absolutely stunning example of custom items made for and exported exclusively to the American Market.  This huge turkey platter is a hard to find piece in a hard to find polychrome (hand coloured).  Perfect for your Thanksgiving decor or feast...and a feast for the eyes of any serious transferware collector, too.    Rowland & Marsellus Company is part of a mark that appears on historical Staffordshire dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rowland & Marsellus is the mark used by an American importing company in New York City. The company worked from 1893 to about 1937. Some of the pieces may have been made by the British Anchor Pottery Co. of Longton, England, for export to a New York firm. Many American views were made. Of special interest to collectors are the plates with rolled edges, usually blue and white. The rolled edge plate has a central design showing a building or scene, and several other related scenes in cartouches on the rolled-o