Bill,

I think this is it.  Whisker, again, citing Bausman's History of Beaver Co., says of the Mayer Pottery Co.: On the site of the Mayer pottery a cooper shop was operated by James Patterson in 1859.  At the same place Chapman & Company later made stoneware, crocks, and jugs, and still later Elijah Webster had a stone china potter.  With him was afterwards associated Benjamn Nowling.  The plant was then run for a short time by the Harmony Society, who sold it to the Mayer Pottery Company.


The 1870 census lists Elijah Webster, works in pottery, next to Isaac Harvey, manages pottery, both born in England.  I don't find Elijah in the 1880 census but Albert, a son, is among the potters listed in Beaver Falls in 1880.

P.S. I would be interested in seeing the mark.

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Liebeknecht <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: Undientified pottery mark from Beaver Falls

> I was recently contacted by a person who has an interesting double-
> handled,double-lipped pitcher marked "PAT. APPLIED FOR JUNE 7, 
> 1872   STONE CHINA
> MANUFACTURED AT BEAVER FALLS, PA".  It looks to me like they put 
> two handles
> on this piece to accommodate the two poring lips, possibly 
> intended to be a
> presentation piece.  It is also likely that it did not receive a 
> patentsince it is not a common form or at least one I am not 
> familiar with at this
> time.  The only potters I know around that time in Beaver Falls, 
> PA are the
> Mayer brothers Arthur, Ernest and Joseph but they did not start 
> until a
> short time later (1881 according to Lehner).  Joseph Mayer 
> emigrated to the
> United States from England in 1865 and within a few years had secured
> several valuable patents relating to jiggering machinery, 
> equipment that
> made use of revolving molds to form pottery vessel shapes.  
> Perhaps this
> represents one of the forms he attempted to patent.  Is there a 
> way to
> search denied patents? 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> I can email photos off-line if requested
> 
> Bill Liebeknecht, MA 
> Hunter Research, Inc.
> Trenton, New Jersey
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