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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1907 



Part of the Well-arranged General Collection of Mrs. Marshall L. Hinman, Dunkirk, New York 



Our illustration shows two sides of his dining-room and we 

 can distinguish a few of his choice pieces. The very rare 

 fourteen-inch platter, "Junction of the Hudson River and 

 the Sacondaga," shows quite plainly. I imagine I see also 

 the little seven and one-half-inch New York "Hurlgate, 

 East River" plate, the "New York Governor's Island," 

 ten and one-half-inch and the eight and one-half-inch "New 

 York Bay" plates. I know of only three collectors who have 

 the last two named plates. They are great rarities. Mr. 

 Tompkins Is fortunate in owning a "Harvest Home" platter 

 (Dr. Syntax set), a "Pennsylvania Arms" platter, and a "Con- 

 necticut Arms" gravy boat. Tt would be far easier to tell 

 what he has not got than to 

 enumerate his best pieces. 

 He needs two of the Arms 

 set, three Syntax views, and 

 about sixteen American 

 scenes. It is a curious fact, 

 and fortunate for Mr. 

 Tompkins, that his wants in 

 the plate line are not nearly 

 so rare as his possessions. I 

 credit him with having 242 

 varieties. It is a truly mar- 

 velous collection. 



It might be well to inter- 

 rupt these sketches for a 

 moment and consider briefly 

 that rare series known as 

 "Arms of the States." 

 Twelve of the thirteen orig- 

 inal States are commem- 

 orated by having their 

 Arms or State seals repro- 

 duced on a set of dark blue 

 Staffordshire. The maker 

 was T. Mayer, supposed to 

 be one of the firm of Mayer 

 Brothers, who purchased 

 the pottery of Joseph 

 Stubbs in 1829. 



This decoration appeared 

 on some of the pieces of a 

 dinner set, also on a few 

 washbowls and pitchers. 

 The easiest ones to get are 

 the Arms of New York, 

 Rhode Island, and South 

 Carolina, which generally 

 come on dinner or tea 

 plates. 



The platters of a china 

 set are far less numerous 

 than the plates, so the rarer 

 Arms views appear on plat- 

 ters and the irregular pieces 

 of the set. 



The Arms of Pennsyl- 

 vania come only on a twen- 

 ty-one-inch turkey platter 

 and it is quite possible that 

 there was only one made 

 with each dinner set. The 

 Arms of Maryland appear 

 on a washbowl and pitcher. 

 The writer has a good speci- 

 men of it in very dark blue. 

 Mrs. Morse has an unusual 

 Maryland Arms piece. It 

 is a shallow pudding dish, 

 eleven and one-half inches across and three inches deep. 



The Arms of New Jersey, Georgia, Delaware, and North 

 Carolina occur on platters. Connecticut has the distinction 

 of being represented on a gravy boat, its cover, and the tray 

 which goes with it. It is said, also, to come on a pitcher, 

 although I have never seen it. I know four collectors who 

 have this scarce Arms piece. Two of them have gravy 

 boats with the covers (without the trays), and two others 

 are happy possessors of the trays. It is possible that under 

 some former ownership these gravy boats and trays were 

 in a united state. 



The Massachusetts Arms view occurs on small vegetable 



Dr. Syntax Harvest Home Platter and Other Rare Pieces in the Collection of Mr. George Kellogg, Amsterdam, New York 



