Meta:

How could you have a 1720-1740 mark found in Australia - except for
fishing (sea cucumbers?)off the north coast or ship wrecks?

                                                RLS




At 11:24 AM 5/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>At the Raritan Landing site in central New Jersey we have found, in a circa
>1720-1740 context, sherds of a Manganese Mottled aka Midlands Mottled mug
>with an AR reign mark beneath the handle that is very similar to those
>found on stonewares.  The literature (including Noel Hume's If These Pots
>Could Talk)  mentions examples from Great Britain.  Has anyone found any in
>the US or Canada or Australia?
>
>Meta Janowitz
>
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