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1892. Trenton Potteries Company began operations and pur- 



chased the Crescent, Delaware, Empire and Equitable 

 potteries. Also built the Ideal. 



1893. Maddock Pottery Company organized and purchased plant 



formerly owned by the Trenton China Company. 



1894. Bellmark Pottery Company. 



1894. Hart Brewer Pottery Company, started originally as Isaac 



Davis pottery, and passed in turn into the hands of Fell 

 & Throp and then of the present owners. 



1895. Electrical Porcelain & Manufacturing Company. 

 1895. Economy Pottery Company. 



1895. John Maddock & Sons. 



1896. Monument Pottery Company. 



1896. Artistic Porcelain Company. 



1897. Cook Pottery Company. 



1897. Sanitary & Earthenware Specialty Company. 



1899. Star Porcelain Company. 



1900. Diamond Porcelain Company. 



1 90 1. Elite Pottery Company. 



1 901. Acme Sanitary Pottery Company. 



1902. Fidelity Pottery Company, successors to< the Egyptian pot- 



tery. 



1902. Hudson Porcelain Company. 



1903. Morris & Wilmore Company. 



In 1852 there was one pottery with one kiln. In 1879 there 

 were 19 potteries with 57 kilns, producing about $2,000,000 worth 

 of wares annually. In 1883 the number of potteries had increased 

 to 23 with no kilns and in 1903 there are 41 with 258 kilns. 



Up to 1863 the products included white, sanitary, yellow, and 

 Tockingham ware ; in 1903 they include china, C. C. ware, white 

 granite ware, sanitary ware, belleek, and porcelain. 



The technical advances that have taken place in the pottery 

 industry at Trenton have been well summarized recently by Mr. 

 E. C. Stover. 1 One of the early improvements was the produc- 

 tion of a ware that would not craze, following which came the 



1 Transactions American Ceramic Society, Vol. II, p. 147. 



