WHITE IRONSTONE NOTES

WHITE IRONSTONE NOTES
VOL. 20, No. 1
SUMMER 2013
CONVENTION COVERAGE
As in the past, this Summer’s issue of the Notes covers the Spring
Convention activities. This year we had an exceptional Keynote
speaker in Miranda Goodby, director of the Museum of ceramics
in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. (see pg. 9) Some examples of the wonderful Exhibit of Masons Ironstone, which accompanied one of her two talks, are starting on page 4. Above is
a reticulated fruit bowl from that exhibit. Also photo coverage
of the always popular Show And Tell of pieces members bring to
share with us all can be found starting on page 12. We didn’t
have room in this issue for a comprehensive view of the entire
Auction or the great Sunday Show of dealers white ironstone. To
get that information you have to come to a convention or ask anyone that was there about the great finds they took home.
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INDEX
WICA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dorothy Riley, President
Jane Diemer,Vice President
Carol Fleischman, Secretary
Dave Klein, Treasurer
Jeanne Atkinson
Dennis Contri
Wes Diemer
Bev Dieringer
Joe Eidukaitis
Jim Miller
Rev. John R. Schilling III
Barbara Tegtmeyer
Don Wagner
Legal Advisor: Tom Moreland
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WHITE IRONSTONE NOTES is published
and edited by Ernie and Bev Dieringer with associate editor, Jim Kerr. Drawings and photos
are by Ernie and Bev Dieringer unless otherwise noted. Please send all news notes, articles,
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Summer, Aug. 15 for Fall.
Members can list white ironstone parts &
pieces wanted and for sale without charge in the
Spare Parts column of each issue.
APPLICATION FOR MEMbERSHIP
Send $40 for one or two individuals at the
same address with check made payable to
WICA, Inc. to:
WICA c/o Chuck Ulmann
1320 Ashbridge Rd.
West Chester, PA 19380
e-mail: Ulmannc@MSN.com
Membership year is June 1st to May 31st.
ADDRESS CHANGES
e-mail Ulmannc@MSN.com
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4 The Mason’s Display
10 Children’s Toy Tea Sets
12 Show & Tell
17 White Ironstone, Malcom Lewin
18 Spare Parts
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Another great convention has come and
gone with incredible speed. Fortunately
we came away with some great pictures
thanks to WICA’s new chief photographer,
Bonne Hohl. Our photographer of eighteen years, Diane Dorman, has had to retire
because of health problems. We will
sorely miss her.
If you take a quick look at the upper left
corner of this page you will notice that we
have a new President of WICA. We are
happy to announce that Dorothy Riley has
taken over the job that Harry Moseley has
done so admirably. Harry will now have
more time for his other projects.
This year’s recipient of the Jean Wetherbee Lifetime Membership Award was
taken totally by surprise. Jim Kerr has
been a part of WICA since its very beginning including being president for a few
years. We depend heavily on him to edit
this publication and check that our facts
much less our spelling is correct. A list of
the previous award winners is in the far
right column of page 3.
If you have a change of address or other
contact information, please contact our
new membership committee heads:
Mary Ann & Chuck Ulmann
Their information for you to get in touch
is always on the lower left corner of this
page.
We also had new auctioneers this year.
David Cordier and Ellen Bergner-Miller.
See more on page 9.
LETTERS
THANK YOU
Who among us has not planned an event –
small or large – a birthday party, a luncheon, a church bazaar, a business meeting,
or in this case – an annual WICA convention? A large event such as our convention
calls upon club volunteers with many talents, which for the most part are behind
the scenes ways of getting the job done.
Among the many chores are telephoning,
writing articles, emailing one another with
questions and plans, photographing ironstone, brainstorming about speakers and
procuring their services, stuffing envelopes, collecting money, arranging
schedules and menus, negotiating with
hotel reps., journeying to post offices and
copying centers, conducting meetings,
making introductions, coordinating audiovisual needs, creating A-V programs, attending board meetings, learning SKYPE,
arranging hotel function room set-ups and
all kinds of clerical minutiae.
This year, and for many years, WICA’s
thanks go to Roland Bergner, Alice and
Steve Canup, David Cordier, Jane and Wes
Diemer, Bev and Ernie Dieringer, Joe Eidukaitis, Carol and Frank Fleischman, Bob
and Bonne Hohl, Patty Hurt, Jim and Mara
Kerr, David and Karen Klein, Kathy and
Tom Lautenschlager, Ellen Miller, Jim
Miller, Audrey and Harry Moseley, Rick
Nielsen, Boyd Payne, Dorothy Riley, John
Schilling, Bruce and Jackie Scott and Don
and Kris Wagner.
When you have an opportunity via email
or in person, please smile and say a grateful thank-you to our good folk. And if you
would like to be a “good folk” this coming
year at the 2014 Wyndham Garden Hotel,
Exton, PA convention and thereby included on the next thank-you list, give me
a shout, and I will plug you in to your favorite committee. I thank you all from my
heart for being the great collecting community you are.
Jane M. Diemer
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I was handed a recipe for lemon syllabub
hand written on a piece of stationery
marked Lester & Florence Good Antiques.
The letter was probably a couple of
decades old but its contents are well worth
trying out and possibly passing on.
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To make lemon syllabubs:
To a pint of cream put a pound of double
refined sugar and the juice of 7 lemons.
Grate the rind of 2 lemons into a pint of
white wine and half a pint of sake (saki).
Then put them all into a deep pot. whisk
them for half an hour. Put it into glasses
the night before you want (to use) it. It is
better for standing 2 or 3 days but it will
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keep a week if required.
(Sounds yummy)
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
I would like to begin my first letter to the
members by thanking everyone for his/her
support. I have large shoes to fill in my
new position as president. Our club was
established just over twenty years ago and
we are in the process of planning our
twentieth convention. I wasn’t part of the
group that organized the club, but I am
proud to say that I am a charter member
and I am now the first woman president of
our wonderful club.
The convention came to a close with a
board meeting on Sunday after the wonderful ironstone sale. We were sorry to
see Harry and Roland leave, but we were
happy to welcome Dennis and Wes, our
newest board members. We had a very
productive board meeting, and I would
like to share some of the tasks I am completing.
Jane and I have set up a Facebook page,
effective June 9. We decided to do this as
Facebook Organization, similar to a business. This will allow people to find us
even if they don’t have a Facebook account. One of the concerns in not doing
this before is that some people do not want
to join Facebook. By setting up WICA as
an organization you are not required to
have an account to view the page; however you will need an account if you want
to upload photographs of your latest finds
or displays and anything else you might
want to share. Please check for us over
the summer, we will be up and running.
The next board meeting will be in October
at Exton, Pennsylvania. Due to the geographic location of many board members
and the location of the next board meeting
Bob and Bonne Hohl request pictures
of white ironstone children’s ware,
teasets and dinner sets for a presentation
at the 2014 Convention.
Please send digital photos before the
end of December to:
krh11340@ptd.net
we have decided to try using Skype for the
midyear meeting. This will reduce travel
costs and save the expense of hotel rooms.
We had another great convention this year.
Joe and I have never been to the Baltimore
area before and it gave us chance to go to
the Inner Harbor to the National Aquarium and out for a nice lunch before the
convention started on Friday.
Your board is planning some new and exciting things for next year’s convention.
As always if you have not attended the
conventions before or if it’s been a few
years you need to come again. It is really
nice to see old friends and meet some new
people. Of course there is the ironstone,
the main attraction.
Thank you to everyone who have submitted the completed convention survey. If
you haven’t done so yet please mail or
email it to me. I will be sorting through
them and tabulating the data throughout
the summer. I will have the report ready
before the midyear board meeting and will
submit a summary for the WHITE IRONSTONE NOTES.
Call for Committees: The Membership
Recruiting and Retention Committee requires a chair. This is the committee that
contacts previous members to encourage
rejoining.
Dorothy Riley
The Illustrated Guide of
White Ironstone China
From A to Z
by Ernie & bev Dieringer
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Book only
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"We are dealers who were set-up at the
WICA Show and Sale on Sunday, May
5th. As we were packing up, we found
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Thank you.
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MASON’S DISPLAY
Three sizes of Long Octagon Mason’s tureens with Foo Dog finials and boar’s head handles. They
are left to right: a vegetable, a soup tureen with Canton transfer decoration, and the sauce tureen. The
soup and sauce tureens are missing ladles and trays. These were probably potted before 1840 when
almost every ironstone shape was decorated. (Hohl photos)
Charles Mason developed a recipe for china, patenting it in 1813. Possibly his invention was based on earlier work by the Turner family of
potters. Mason, however, did invent the word “ironstone”. Many
Staffordshire potters used the word to market their own patterns after
the Mason patent expired in 1827. By 1848 Charles Mason was declared bankrupt and the entire factory in Fenton – fixtures, utensils,
molds, green (unfired) stock, biscuit (once fired but unglazed), glossed
(glazed) stock and a complete patent printing machine for engravings
were auctioned. Francis Morley purchased Mason’s molds, engraved
copper plates and other materials and began adding “Morley” below
the Mason crown mark on ware made from Mason’s designs. Later in
1858 Morley formed a partnership with George L. Ashworth, marking
some pieces with both names. By 1860 that partnership dissolved and
G.L. Ashworth continued making ironstone with exclusive rights to the
old Mason molds, copper plates and trade marks.
Examples of some of these pieces were included in the WICA convention exhibit (including the openwork fruit bowl on the cover and page
7). Also in the exhibit were colorful examples of transferware and
painted or clobbered ware. Also included were the white pieces which
either “escaped” decoration or which were not designated to be decorated. Collectors of white ironstone covet these “escapees”. We wonder
why Mason did not trust the new overseas market for white ironstone,
particularly with the great success of James Edwards, Samuel Alcock
and others with undecorated ironstone. Could he have avoided bankruptcy in 1848 if he had trusted the American market?
A Mason’s hunting jug. This side shows a boar being
attacked by hunting dogs. The handle is an oak branch
that wraps around the body of the piece with oak leaves
and acorns.
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MASON’S DISPLAY
Above: A group of different Gothic Shapes with the Aurora pattern. Also a plain white
plate and a large slop bowl, all by Frances Morley, 1845-1850.
Mark on the above white plate.
Above: A group of four Hydra shape jugs and two undecorated relief jugs.
A Fenton jug and its mark.
We often made the mistake
of naming the jugs below
Fenton jugs. We now
know that those jugs are
Hydra Shape.
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MASON’S DISPLAY
Child’s dinner set in Hebe-type shape by
Morley & Ashworth. Notice in the top of
the photo, two vegetables, two gravy boats,
two oval bakers and a wine cooler in the
center.
An astonishing leaf-shape relish by
Mason’s. It’s hard to believe something
of this age has survived without being
chipped.
Mason’s Curved Gothic tall sauce tureen.
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MASON’S DISPLAY
Above : An engraved picture of the Mason’s factory
at Fenton, Delph Lane, Staffordshire.
Hunting jug with very high relief dogs by Mason.
Early swirl vegetable by
F. Morley.
Wonderful compote marked Brattle House, Cambridge,
1850. The Cambridge Hotel hosted families of Harvard students. It was potted by Morley after 1850.
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MASON’S DISPLAY
Reticulated chestnut bowl
marked ‘Imported by A.
Cameron, Charleston, S.C.’
A Mason’s hot beverage jug which has
a drainer built inside the pour spout.
The jug has the same mark as the
syrup below.
Pewter lidded small syrup with a
hydra handle on the side instead
of the back of the jug.
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Those WICA members who attended May’s Maryland convention had great pleasure in welcoming and hearing Miranda
Goodby, Curator of Ceramics at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England; Ms. Goodby honored us
twice on Saturday as keynoter, speaking on “Potters and Publicans” and “The Masons”. “Pottery making has always been
thirsty work as the processes are both hot and dusty and 18th and 19th century Staffordshire potters had a reputation for
working and drinking hard. The relationship between potters and the public house, be it inn, tavern or beer shop was a close
one. Many master potters owned pubs where workers would be paid on a Saturday night, and many workers attempted to
take beer from those public houses onto the shop floor. Pubs were the centre of social life where friendly societies would
meet, auctions be held and political meetings take place. Bull baiting, bear baiting and cockfighting would take place on
their premises. Poverty and deprivation were consequences of habitual drunkenness, but conversely the potteries was also
a centre for teatotalism”.
“The Mason family of Fenton patented ironstone china in 1813 – C. J. Mason could have purchased the Turner Patent, which
expired in 1813. Mason made some of the most spectacular pieces of ironstone ever produced, and their name is forever associated with this product. Yet at the same time their employees and the potters’ unions criticized them for their employment
practices, and their fellow manufacturers criticized them for their business methods, particularly the firm’s auction sales.”
China Club members, an arranged group of bidders, bid together in order to avoid competition and later sold within their
private group, thereby keeping prices artificially low. Perhaps this kind of repeated auction led to the Mason bankruptcy,
after which copper plates and molds were purchased by Francis Morley.
David Cordier
Ellen Bergner-Miller
Our new auctioneers did a wonderful job with the auction. the continued
use of having an enlarged photo of the current piece being auctioned, really
helped the process.
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CHILDREN’S TEA SETS
For years we wondered if there was ever a child's size tea set made complete with meat and cake dishes and
a butter dish (among other pieces) necessary for a proper English Tea. The child size dinner sets have often
been so complete that they even had pairs of mini relish dishes and a wine cooler which could definitely have
been used as teaching tools for setting out a dinner. On eBay we came upon an 1879 boxed tea set with a
written “List of a Tea Set” glued to the inner lid. It was owned by a Minni J. Johnson, and included:
1 Tea Pot
1 Sugar bowl
1 Slop Bowl
1 Milk Pitcher
4 Cups & Saucers
4 Tea Plates
1 Bread Plate
1 Cake Plate
4 Preserve Plates
1 Meat Dish
1 Butter Dish
4 Silver Spoons
The photo of the contents shows that a tea pot and 4 silver spoons are missing. Two small saucers and a tiny
dish have been added. (see them in the middle left of the open display of the contents). But the Sugar, milk
pitcher, slop bowl, 4 cups and saucers, 4 tea plates, 1 bread plate, 4 preserve plates (that we assume are the
tiny honey dishes), 1 meat dish (oval platter), and 1 covered butter dish have all survived. There is no mention
of any potters marks.
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CHILDREN’S TEA SETS
This tea set only included four settings.
Another boxed set, this time with the requitsit six person settings and
astonishingly the spoons that go with it. Probably from the 1890s or
later.
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SHOW & TELL
Dennis Contri showed us a
beautiful Gothic-shaped compote. Pierced arched bands on a
decagon paneled pedestal by
Wooliscroft. One row has arches
all cut open, one row had alternatively pierced arches and the bottom round is not pierced at all.
At the far left is an unmarked
wicker cheese keep.
Left: The Colonel Elsworth pitcher.
It commemorates the actions of an officer of the North. The first of the North
to die in the Civil War. A history of the
jug’s story can be found in Vol 8 #2,
page 18.
The side of the pitcher shown is of a
huge eagle with a snake in its beak. The
snake represents all the Southern states
that seceeded. The other side illustrates
the shooting of Col. Elsworth.
Carol Fleischman showed the smaller syrup
named Clover. The larger one is New York
Shape but what makes this one special is that it
has a heavy ball on a stem under the lid which
automatically holds the lid open when pouring.
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SHOW & TELL
Gloria Weatherby brought a
“Milk Saver” marked for a
sauce pan not to be more than
half filled with milk. We have
no idea what it did or how it did
it. Any one out there that can
tell us?
Harry Moseley brought two really nice
metal-lidded teapots, one with foliage
and berries. The other with ivy leaves
and flowers. They had no marks.
John Yunginger showed
Hands by Vodrey Bros.
(William, James and John)
Unusual in that no wedding
ring is on the ring finger.
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SHOW & TELL
Kris Wagner found a flower frog that is unusual. It has a pedestal
that holds water enough for over twenty flowers.
Tom and Olga Moreland
showed very early Fluted Double Swirl shape soup, sauce and
vegetable tureens. Registered
May 30, 1843 this shape was
one of the first white ironstone
shapes by James Edwards.
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SHOW & TELL
Jim Kerr discovered an unusual J. & G. Meakin
tureen (lower left) with decorative bamboo
shaped handles and finial. A fine example of
Japanese influenced banded edge designs including vases and cherry blossoms.
He also brought the either soap or holy water
dish (at left) and this gravy boat in a Scrolled
Medallion type design circa 1860. We were not
able to identify the pattern or potter.
Bees keep by Edge
Malkin & Co. in a
mustard cup size.
Below Barrel shape
bank, unmarked.
Rick Nielsen found several
goodies. A pewter-lidded
syrup (below middle) with
floral & grape & northwinds motif.
Master salt? Barrow & Co.
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SHOW & TELL
Dave Klein found a very rare Virginia
Shape stew tureen or chowder by
Brougham & Mayer, circa 1855.
Bev & Ernie Dieringer brought a small
figurine of a Shakespearian gentleman,
8 inches tall. Also shown was another
ironstone figure in the shape of a whistle. The whistle sounds like those used
by trainmen in Victorian times.
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White Ironstone Malcolm Lewin
Back in May 2012 I received an enquiry from a lady called Jane Diemer (who lives in America) asking if I knew anything about
‘White Ironstone’. I replied (quite honestly) that what I knew about it I could probably write on the back of a postage stamp! So I
decided that it might be a topic that potentially was of interest to members of the Mason’s Collectors’ Club.
There are a couple of Collectors Clubs in the States that may be of interest to us. The first is the ‘Transferware Collectors’ Club which
is open to anyone who is interested in British transfer ware, and the ‘White Ironstone China Association‘. Both of these are ‘generic’
in that they aren’t restricted to the output of one factory (as we are). At least two of our ‘Mason’s’ members are also members of the
Transferware Collectors Club and I know that our own Des Scanlon has established good links with at least one of them.
Jane very kindly sent me a number of photographs of ‘Mason’s’ white Ironstone, some of which I have included in this article. Members who were at the March meeting will have seen more!
Back in March 2001 Neil Ewins gave a presentation to the Club on the American market. He told us that in 1801 10,000 crates of
Staffordshire wares were exported to America. By 1850, it had increased to 100,000 crates.
However, this wasn’t simply exports of china produced for the UK market. The American market was fond of ‘White Granite’ and
‘Flow Blue’ wares rather than the more traditionally heavily decorated Ironstone products that the UK market admired. By the second
half of the 19th century it had become clear from import and export documents that ‘White Granite’ was the dominant choice for the
American Market.
This plain white glazed Ironstone is virtually unknown here in the UK because nearly all of it was made for export to Europe, Australia,
and the United States. (Later ironstone products also included ‘Tea Leaf’ Ironstone - simple three leaf pattern and bud design and
‘Mulberry Ironstone’ - simple transfer printed wares in dark greys browns or purples).
Thickly potted ’White Granite’, or ’White Ironstone’ in moulded form was a continuation of a trade that had been established earlier
by British ’Creamwares’. English manufacturers produced numerous patterns (shapes) from 1840 to 1870 in particular. The all-white
designs featuring hexagonal and octagonal panels were popular with American customers in agricultural areas. This pottery was
known as ‘farmer’s china‘. The white ironstone simplicity together with its affordability appealed to the no-frills American country
life and British potters recognised a potential market among rural American families buying china for the first time. These pieces,
given names such as graniteware, stoneware and ironstone are now all categorized as Ironstone. White ironstone patterns fall into
distinct periods. Those dating from the 1830s to the 1850s comprise panelled hexagonal or octagonal shapes and formed part of the
‘Gothic Revival‘ movement. Rounded forms emerged in the 1860s, including harvest patterns decorated with relief-moulded berries
or the popular wheat sheaves. After c1860, bulbous, extravagantly ornamental designs combined ribs with leaves and flowers dominated the designs; then from 1880 on, Ironstone reverted to plainer and simpler shapes, often unadorned except for the finials or
handles.
Trade links existed in a number of ways. Some manufacturers advertised directly, some by importers contacting manufacturers and
some by the manufacturer appointing a dealer - we know from our own researches that TT Kissam c1825-1849 were importing
Mason’s wares into the American market via New York (although the examples we have seen here in the UK seem to be the ‘usual’
Mason’s patterns). In the 1839 New York Inventory of Importers Mason’s were recorded and a Thomas Barrow was advertising
Mason’s wares. Gregory & Co of Albany were advertising in 1845 Mason’s wares for ‘Public Houses‘ and in 1848 Philadelphia importer P&A Rovoudt advertised Morley‘s ‘White Ironstone‘ suitable ‘for hotel and steamboat services‘.
In 1848 a trading partnership was established between John Hackett Goddard and John Burgess of Baltimore. (John Hackett Goddard
was to buy Geo. Ashworth Bros in 1883). In the USA the company traded as ‘Burgess and Goddard’ - in the UK it was ‘Goddard
and Burgess’. Goddard and Burgess acted as agents (and as far as we are aware didn’t manufacture) and had outlets in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore - shipping vast quantities of Staffordshire earthenwares to the USA.
The Staffordshire potters who were exporting to America included a number of names well know to us such as Wedgwood. Others
with large sales to the American market are firms that we may not be so familiar with such as T&R Boote of Burslem (c1845);
Anthony Shaw of Tunstall & Burslem (c1850); Elsmore & Forster of Tunstall (c1855); and James Edwards of Burslem (c1842).
By the 1850s the American potters had started to get their own act together and firms such as William Young & Co (c1853) and
Taylor & Speeler (c1853) both of Trenton New Jersey (which was to become one of the major centers of pottery production) had
started to produce their own Ironstone wares. This, together with increasing duties on UK imports was to lead to the American market
shrinking for the UK export trade.
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SPARE PARTS
PARTS WANTED
Undertray for Olympic Shape soup tureen.
Jane Diemer – pahbubba@comcast.net.
-------------------------------------------------J F Grand Loop tea lid
J F Hidden Motif sugar
J F Grand Loop soup tray
J F Berry Cluster sauce tray
Boote's Atlantic sauce tray (oval)
Girard shape tea lid
Carol Fleischman, 815 723 0904 or e-mail
candfl13@juno.com
-------------------------------------------------ADRIATIC SHAPE round soup tureen lid
and liner
ATLANTIC SHAPE vegetable tureen lid
BERLIN SWIRL sauce tureen lid and
liner
BUDDED VINE vertical toothbrush top
CENTENNIAL sugar bowl lid
CERES SHAPE hot toddy lid (no rope)
CORAL SHAPE sauce tureen lid
EAGLE DIAMOND THUMBPRINT
sugar bowl
FORGET ME NOT soup tureen liner
FORGET ME NOT toothbrush liner
FULL RIB SHAPE teapot lid
GIRARD SHAPE sugar bowl lid
GOTHIC SHAPE teapot lid
GRAND LOOP vertical toothbrush undertray
LOV sugar bowl lid (Shaw)
MEADOW BOQUET sugar bowl lid
POTOMAC hot beverage server lid
(round)
QUARTERED ROSE sugar bowl lid
SAINT LOUIS SHAPE brush box lid
SCALLOPPED DECAGON sauce tureen
lid
SCROLLED BUBBLE SHAPE toothbrush holder top
SCROLLED BUBBLE teapot lid (ring)
SYDENHAM oval sauce tureen lid
VINTAGE SHAPE hot toddy lid
WALLED OCTAGON teapot lid
Rick Nielsen, 314 997 7963 or e-mail
rn1132@earthlink.net
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FOR SALE
Reticulated ironstone compote by Anthony
Shaw. 8 1/2” high and 10” diameter.
$200 plus shipping.
Barbara Genest 212 362 6786
COLLECTORS’ SHOWCASE
This is a monteith which was found on eBay.
We came across a definition in an Encyclopedia
of Ceramics. It is a large circular or oval bowl.
The rim has a series of scallops or notches used
to suspend wine glass stems by the foot in cooling ice water. The term is said to have been derived from a Scotsman named Monteith, who
at Oxford during the reign of Charles II, wore
a cloak scalloped at the bottom.