ONLINE BELLEEK GUIDE

BELLEEK CHRISTMAS PLATE MARKS

STANDARD 6TH MARK
1970	1971	1972
		STANDARD 6TH MARK
1973	1974	1975
STANDARD 6TH MARK
1976	1977	1978
1979	1980	1981
1982	1983 ERROR MARK- SHOULD BE 2ND SERIES- 6TH EDITION	1984
1985	1986	1987
1988	1988
1989	1989
STANDARD 7TH MARK
1990	1991	1992
		STANDARD 8TH MARK
1993	1994	1995
STANDARD 8TH MARK	STANDARD 9TH MARK	STANDARD 9TH MARK
1996	1997	1998
STANDARD 9TH MARK	STANDARD 10TH MARK
1999	2000	2001
2002	2003	2004

THE WIDE RANGE OF MARKS IN THE BELLEEK CHRISTMAS PLATES

AS YOU CAN TELL, THERE IS NO TRUE WAY OR SYSTEM THAT BELLEEK USES FOR ITS CHRISTMAS PLATE MARKS.  SOME HAVE SPECIAL MARKS, SOME HAVE STANDARD MARKS, SOME HAVE SPECIAL SAYINGS AND STANDARD MARKS!  SOME PLATES HAVE YEARS ON THEM, SOME DON'T.   NOTICE THE ERROR IN THE 1983 MARK!

A CHRONOLOGY OF THE BELLEEK CHRISTMAS PLATES

THE FIRST EDITION, WHICH RAN FROM 1970- 1976, WAS NOT REALLY A RELATED SERIES.  IT FEATURED EVERYTHING FROM YEATS' GRAVE TO 2 IDENTICAL CROSSES IN 1971 AND 1975 TO THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS.  THE 1971 PLATE MARK IS CONFUSING.  ALL PLATES IN 1971 WERE ONE OF A SERIES OF 7,500- NOT THE FIRST PLATE OF 7,500.  THE FIRST PLATE OF THE SECOND SERIES (1977, ANIMALS OF IRELAND) WAS NOT STARTED AS THE SECOND EDITION, FIRST SERIES.  IT SEEMS THAT IN 1978, BELLEEK STARTED TO NUMBER THEIR EDITIONS (EXAMPLE- 2ND EDITION, FIFTH SERIES).  HOWEVER, THIS NUMBERING SYSTEM OF NAMING THE THIRD SET OF PLATES THE THIRD SERIES CAME TO A HALT AFTER 1987.  THE NEXT SERIES AFTER THE FLOWERS WAS THE CHRISTMAS SCENES IN IRELAND.  THESE PLATES WERE IN A SERIES, BUT THE SERIES WAS NOT NUMBERED, IT WAS ONLY NAMED.  LET'S HOPE THAT ALL CHRISTMAS PLATES WILL HAVE SPECIAL MARKS IN THE FUTURE!

PRODUCTION NUMBERS OF BELLEEK CHRISTMAS PLATES

DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE AT LEAST 147 DIFFERENT BELLEEK MARKS?

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