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KERAMIC STUDIO 
THE COLLECTOR 
SILVER LUSTRE TEAPOT 
THE cut shown here, is of a silver lustre teapot, the 
largest and finest piece of silver lustre ware that it has 
been the fortune of the writer to have seen. The information 
obtainable from the text books of the authorities on {ceramics 
is very meagre, owing mostly, I presume, to the fact that 
lustred ware rarely, if ever, bore the mark of the maker. 
Jewitt in his "Ceramic Art of Great Britain," has very little 
to say on the subject of silver lustre, and it is as follows: 
"John Aynstey, toward the end of the 18th century, estab- 
lished a pottery at Lane End (now Longton), and made, 
among other wares, silver lustre." One thing is very certain, 
the quantity of the ware now to be obtained is very meagre, 
consequently collectors desire to have specimens, and the 
prices paid are pretty well up. 
TORTOISE SHELL TEAPOT 
This cut is of tortoise shell teapot, manufactured at 
Bennington, Vt., and as the cut shows is a very fine spec- 
imen, being about ten and one-half inches high, octagon 
in shape and resembles tortoise shell showing brown, yellow, 
green and black colors. The stamp impressed on the bottom 
is "Lyman, Fenton & Co., Fenton's Enamel, Patented, 1849, 
Bennington," this pottery was established in 1846, and was 
closed in 1858, consequently good specimens are very scarce. 
There is, I believe quite an exhibit of the ware in Bennington, 
and those who have been fortunate enough to have seen it 
state that it is well worthy of a visit to that city, and the lover 
of old china will feel well repaid by the pleasure that an exam- 
ination of the beautiful specimens give one. 
Col. John H. Drake. 
SALES OF VALUABLE PIECES 
THERE have been lately in New York some important sales 
of antiques, including valuable pieces of old china. 
Prices were irregular, as is always the case in auction sales, 
some pieces selling at fairly good prices, while others sold 
much below their value. For instance in one auction, a 
States plate, nine inch, brought $1 1 ; in another, just as good 
a plate, brought only $4. Dealers generally ask for such plates 
from $12 to $15. 
Here are some of the prices brought by pieces in good 
conditon : 
STAFFORDSHIRE. 
One States plate, 10 inch diameter #30.00 
States plates, 9 inch diameter $4.00, 7.00, 9.00 and 1 1.00 
State Home, Boston, platter 25 00 
McDonough's Victory, plate 20.00 
Shakespeare's House, plate 17.00 
LaGrange, residence of Lafayette, plate 14.00 
City Hall, New York, plates #8 00 and 14.CO 
City Hall, New York, platter u 00 
Landing of Lafayette, plates $5.50 and 1 1.00 
Landing of Lafayette, small tureen 9 00 
Pain's Hill, Surrey, plate g. o 
Christ Church, Oxford, plate 8.00 
Newburgh-on-Hudson, platter 7.50 
Regent's Park, plates $4.50 and 7.50 
Fairmount Park, plate 7.00 
Landing of Columbus, platter 6.00 
Fishkill-on-Hudson, plates S5.50 and 6.00 
Oxford Cathedral, pink plate , 4.00 
Residence of Richard Jotden, pink plate 2.00 
Cupid behind the bars, dark blue plate 14.00 
Sheltered Peasants, dark blue plates 84 00 and 13.00 
Ordinary plates and platters, willow pattern, &c from 50 cents to 2.00 
OTHER WARES. 
Old Delft plates, according to decoration from $1.00 to 4.00 
A fine Delft tankard, polychrome decoration 6.00 
Old Canton blue plates from 60 cents to 1.25 
Old Canon blue platters from $3. 00 to 4.00 
Ordinary copper lusire pitchers from 50 cents to 2.00 
Copper lustre pitcher, Portrait of Lafayette 17.00 
Liverpool pitcher, The Farmer's Arms, good condition 22.00 
Liverpool pitcher, the true blooded Yankee, damaged 9.00 
Three Lowestoft vases (Chinese), in perfect condition each 37.50 
Small Lowestoft pieces, some slightly damaged from S2.>oto 5.00 
Capodi Monte vases from $10.00 to 25.00 
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Dodd Mead & Co., Fifth avenue, New York, have just 
published a magnificent book, Pictures of Early New York, on 
Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery, by R. T. Haines Halsey. 
The price is high, $50, but the issue is limited and already 
nearly exhausted. Every piece of Staffordshire pottery relat- 
ing to early New York is reproduced in color and the book 
will be of great value to collectors. 
if -f 
Damp ware, as it is called, if put in the oven comes out bad; 
it is ware in the clay state with all the wet not evaporated. 
