Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory ("Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte"), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most outstanding factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory. Capodimonte is most famous for its moulded figurines. The porcelain of Capodimonte, and later Naples, was a "superb" translucent soft-paste, "more beautiful" but much harder to fire than the German hard-pastes, or "a particularly clear, warm, white, covered with a mildly lustrous glaze". The Capodimonte mark was a fleur-de-lys in
Best of the West (action figures) that Thunderbolt had assumed in the early production years. And finally, Marx produced a native princess called "Princess Wildflower." In 1975, after 10 years of continuous "Johnny West" production, Marx devised a new and final series name for their western/cavalry themed action figures, the "Johnny West Adventure Series." The "Johnny West Adventure series" included new box designs, along with figures and accessories in much brighter color schemes. Marx released "Quick Draw" versions of "Johnny West" and "Sam Cobra" in which a lever in the back would allow figures to draw their pistols. In addition, Marx introduced "Jed Gibson," a black