Replacements, Ltd. sells replacement china.   Their web site has pictures of
THOUSANDS of patterns:  www.replacements.com   This site has come in handy
on occasion, for artifact analysis as well as for the family china set.

And to return to the start of this thread, didn't Jim Deetz discuss "mass
dumping episodes" of ceramic sets at length in "Flowerdew Hundred"?   (I
loaned and lost my copy)

Also, I recall Chris Ricciardi gave a great paper at a Mid-Atlantic or CNEHA
conference about 1995, reporting on a cistern full of
complete dish sets and hundreds of intact bottles that Brooklyn College had
excavated at the Van Cortland Mansion in Brooklyn.   As I recall, when the
family moved,
they took very little with them...just dumped it all in the cistern and
covered it over.   There were some extremely unusual patterns, too - George
Miller and the other ceramic buffs had never seen some of them.

Jack Eastman
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In a message dated 2/28/2001 12:43:25 PM Mountain Standard Time,
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Selling "replacement" pieces to patterns no
longer being manufactured is, in fact, a big business.

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Linda, I don't know how regional your situation is.  I think its widespread
in this country.  My wife and her friends and sisters (scattered from Utah
to
California to Oregon) are always looking to fill in their pieces that may
have broken or for which they don't have enough and sometimes go to great
lengths to find places to buy them.  When they find a store with one or a
few
they are estatic.

Mike Polk
Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C.
Ogden, Utah