We just copied the Chinese who sent their 'rubbish' porcelain to the
barbarians in Europe. Talking of whcih Stoke on Trent museum is threatening
to combine its archaeology and local history depts replacing four posts with
one and reducing its ceramics dept curators from one to two. This threatens
Stoke's long role as a centre for understanding of English ceramics and
their role in the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps some rich American
foundation can offer to buy up the museum lock, stock and barrel and
transport it to the USA.Stoke can then have its virtual reality Ceramicon
museum that it has ploughed so much money into without yet having more than
an empty shell of a building,.

A morbidly depressed
paul courtney, Leicester, UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: 2nd Hand Ceramics, was Privies


> In a message dated 2/28/01 3:19:35 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << "Pioneer Texas!" supplies >>
> Let's not forget the British kept warehouses of factory seconds to be
shipped
> and sold to the United States. I think they got an especially big kick out
of
> selling those blue transfer prints that ran all over the tableware to the
> silly Americans who eagerly paid money for "flow blue."
>