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A. A. L.— We never have repaired any of the English china you mention, 
we have always found Sartorius cement satisfactory for what work we have 
done, but if your ware, as you say, absorbs it and will not stick together we 
would advise letting it absorb as much as it mil and then use a very little 
Aufsetzweis in tubes to help stick the pieces togetlier and until it can be tied 
with your asbestos cord. Flux would not do— it would wear out. Dishes 
that turn dark in the crack can usually be refired hard enough to make the 
color disappear. Maroon makes a rich dark red when dusted on. 
L. M. C— In using for decoration a coat of arms in which rich red and 
green are used, we should suggest placing the coat of arms on the rim with gold 
edge and lines or bands of gold or the red or green stopping either side of shield. 
We doubt if you. could have a transfer made in this country, you might 
write to Palm & Fechteler whose ad will be found in the advertising columns. 
You will probably liave to transfer the outlines with a pencil and fill in with 
color. Plates well executed in this style should be wortli $3.00 to S4.00 
each, possibly $5.00. 
W. C. C. — The cause of the fine wliite spots appearing on your painted 
piece of china is difficult to decide without seeing. It might be" that it came 
from moisture in the kiln or from spatterings of alcohol before firing. Pos- 
sibly, however, it comes from some imperfection in the glaze of the china, 
this is the more likely explanation. 
D. N. B. — We sliould judge that the cause of blistering on your bowl was 
due to too much oil or color in some places. You never can tell when these 
will blister, some times a thick or oily color will come out all right but usually 
when the firing is too rapid more blisters appear than when the firing is slower. 
The strength of the firing would not do it. In America more china is under- 
fired than overfired. We do not think jrou fired too hard. When once a 
piece begins to blister, it is impossible to say when it will stop. 
WILLIAM ADAMS, 
AN OLD ENGLISH POTTER 
with a history of his family and their 
prodvictions ' 
by WILLIAM TURNER, F. S. S. 
'T'HIS interesting publicatton on the 
•melt-kno'wn Adams productions, 
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SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
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THE BOOK OF R05ES 
It contains over forty pages of designs and studies, many of which have appeared in back numbers of Ker- 
amic Studio now out of print, and the volume is also enriched by nine color studies by the following artists: Mar- 
shal Fry, F. B. Aulich, Sara Wood-Safford, E. Louise Jenkins, Anna B, Leonard, Rhoda Holmes NichoIIs and 
Teana McLennan Hinman. 
Among the other contributors to the book we have K. E. Cherry, Mary Alta Morris, Henrietta B. Paist, 
Hattie V. Young Palmer, Ida C. Failing, Marianna Heath, A. A. Robineau, Sara B. Vilas, M. M. Mason, L M. 
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The book is designed to meet the requirements of both schools of decoration, the Conventional and Natural- 
istic, the space devoted to each being about equally divided. Treatments for china painting are published in full and 
many of the designs are accompanied by treatments for water colors. 
The size of page and quality of paper used is the same as Keramic Studio, the whole is tastefully bound 
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