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If it's not too late to add to the bibliography/discussion of ceramic gaming
pieces:
twelve disks were recovered at the site of Ventura Mission (California), in a
mixed trash deposit containing evidence of the prehistoric, Mission, Chinese,
and early Colonial occupations. They range in size from 1.3 to 2.8 cm.
Materials are Chinese Export Canton (1 ex.); San Elizario Polychrome
(Majolica - 1); hand painted polychrome porcelain (1); plain porcelain (1);
mulberry transfer print on earthenware (1); whiteware with low molded relief
(1); undecorated whiteware (6, one with illegible portion of impressed mark).
All of these were carefully chipped to circular.
A 13th example, unfinished and broken, suggests a possible alternative
interpretation as blanks for buttons. This has been carefully ground into
shape, made from a blue transfer printed earthenware hollow vessel form
printed on both sides. One perforation has been drilled clear through the
item, and a second hole is profiled through the break.
Mean date of the identified whole vessels in the feature was 1861.4. The
materials are reported in "The Chaging Faces of Mail Street: Ventura Mission
Plaza Archaeological Project" (1976).
Roberta Greenwood
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