The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-16

or destroyed on account OF their small
size, or the children had them TO play with.
Five or six dollars is by no means an I'M
usual price for tiny plate measuring three
or three and half inches across know
Oh one, picked up in a negro CABIN LOT ~
cents a few months ago. and sold within
NEE IGr 90 This was a piece OF emma
This same luck is a curious gift. II is
born with one. like beauty and good spell
Ing. There is collector whom know who
mas this power of inducing people TO sci!
him their treasures Many years ago
found in East Hampton a lovely old farm
house filled TO overlooking with treasures
OF every description. | tried repeatedly 10
buy a few things. offering a good round
sum or money. Politely, but nrmly, L was
shown the door. / met my friend with q
glft a Few days after driving away from
the place with CARLOAD OF 'stun-furnl-
ture, china and pewter and in his lap was a
huge bandboX covered with howerd paper.
He pulled of the cover in triumph and
showed bonnet of puckered silk, formerly
white, but now a lovely yellow, and float
ing about it veil Of creamy handwrought
lace.
4" You must have given your head for all
this l cried obviously.
-" Not at all: So for the lot, and they
threw in grandma's bonnet and lent me
That studio is to-day overlooking with
what the collector proudly calls farm
house spoils.'
But of cup plates you cannot get too
W
sells better, is more sought after in ex-
change or which makes a more beautiful
collection, their very small size making
them easily cared for.
There are collections of cup plates num-
bering 200 and more pieces, but large sum
must have been invested and much time
and patience expended in gathering them
There are many of these cup plates TO be
found in the printed wares-red green
brown and black-but they are all of later
manufacture-1Si5 and after-and show the
I 10 oh ~ nGfn of no mott nVr of hnT nYlC IL
Save when they show some historic view
! they are of the smallest value.
II am often asked what certain pieces OF
china are worth, and generally answer:
What you can get for them If you have
a cup plate, however, from three and one
half to four and three-quarterS inches in
size, and if 1T is not badly cracked or dam
aged, you may say to yourself as you weigh
it in your hand, Which is the better, my
plate or five-dollar goldpiece?'
1.-THE words E Pluribus Unum,' which are
so often used on our coins, were also seized
upon by the English potters who made
patriotic wares for our market. 1t is almost
safe to say that any piece OF china with
these words on the back is of historic in
terest and value for il was probably made
by L. Wood, Burslem or by 7. Mayer. both
of them famous pOtterS, the Woods the
more so, for the Mayer pottery, at Stoke,
put forth only one set of American de-
signs. These were the arms or seals OF
the original States They may be found
on plates and platters, very handsomely
printed in the well-known rich dark blue,
and enriched with a border of trumpet
flowers and stars.
THE eighteen-inch platters in proof con-
dtion-that is. absolutely perfect-are very
valuable and very hard to find. a set of the
whole thirteen would be a wonderful deco
ration for dining room, but very costly
one well, for a person could never hope
to get them all unaided, and as soon as a
dealer is called upon the price scars sky
ward.
what would be the feelings of the old
1 tore h ffRnf TOR
of the nineteenth century and sent over
their Stoneware or semi-china should they
know the prices which these wares bring
to-day? Made 10 sell for about a shilling
each piece, printed in blue because it was
cheap and durable, they little dreamed how
their work would soar i'm value"