Thanks George for the posting on the Florida Museum of Natural History Web 
Site.  For those of use who have dreamed about using computers to create a 
readily available database, this site is an ambitious attempt to provide a wealth 
of information.  However, virtually every entry that I have looked at within my 
realm of expertise is wrong.  For example, the 18th - century English agate 
ware type shows a ca. 1880 American Rockingham door knob.  In those areas which 
I have little knowledge (the Mexican stuff) how can I trust any of the 
information?
 
Ceramic typology can be a life long career for some of us- I keep re-learning 
that there is always something new to discover.  I would encourage those 
interested in historic-period ceramics to peruse the electronic databases of the 
major auction houses – Sotheby’s, Christies, Bonham’s, and eBay.  
 
Websites such as Amy Earls’ are certainly the most competent efforts to 
convey up to date information.  Regardless, maintaining websites takes considerable 
effort to keep information current.  I have started several times to work on 
a comprehensive shell-edge site...but everyday something new comes along:  
http://ceramicsinamerica.com/shell-edged.htm
 
 
The Chipstone Foundation is also working toward digital databases for 17th 
and 18th ceramics.  At the moment, several articles from Ceramics in America on 
now available on line:
 
http://www.chipstone.org/framesetpublications.html
 
 
The fourth issue of Ceramics in America is now going to press.  I would 
encourage anyone with the slightest interest in ceramics to avail themselves to 
information contained in these articles:
 
“The Swan Cove Kiln: Chesapeake Tobacco Pipe Production, Circa 1650-1669.
Al Luckenbach
 
“Archaeology of a Colonial Pottery Factory: The Kilns And Ceramics Of The “
Poor Potter” Of Yorktown”
Norman F. Barka
 
“Yorktown’s “Poor Potter”: A Man Wise Beyond Discretion”
 Martha W. McCartney and Edward Ayres
 
 
“An ‘A’-Marked Covered Porcelain Bowl, Cherokee Clay and Colonial American’
s Contribution to the English Porcelain Industry”
W. Ross. H. Ramsay, Judith H. Hansen, and E.Gael Ramsay
“The Little Engine That Could:  Adaptation and Use of the Engine Turning 
Lathe in the Pottery Industry”  
Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentier
 
“The Potters and Pottery of Morgan’s Town, Virginia: The Earthenware Years, 
Circa 1790 to 1854” 
Don Horvath and Richard Duez
“Bernard Leach in America” 
Emmanuel Cooper
“
Henry Remmey & Son, Late of New York: A Rediscovery of a Master Potter’s Lost 
Years”
Luke Zipp
“
The Remarkable Stoneware Of George N. Fulton, Circa 1856-1894”
 Kurt C. Russ
 
 “A Hunting We Will Go! From Vauxhall to Lambeth 1700 – 1956” 
Ivor Noël Hume
 
 New Discoveries--2004
 
“A New Look at Old Stoneware: The Pottery of Tildon Easton “
Barbara H. Magid 
 
“Relatedness and Fluidity among Stoneware Potters of Washington County, 
Virginia” 
Christopher T. Espenshade
 
“Jar or Jug?: A Handled Stoneware Storage Vessel from the Delaware Valley”
William B. Liebeknecht
 
 William Pecker Jar
John  Kille
 
A Pernicious Influence?  Japanese Water Drop Ware 
Mary C. Beaudry 
 
An Investigation into “Ghosts” and Gilding on a Kangxi Porcelain Pot in the 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Lisa Ellis
 
Sherds of Chinese Porcelain Found at Old Mobile
Linda Shulsky
 
Ceramic Surprises at the John Dortch site near St. Francisville, West 
Feliciana Parish, Louisiana   
Sarah Hahn
 
THIS I MAD FOR YOV AND MOOM
Robert Werowinski
 
If This Pot Could Sing
Al Luckenbach
 
 Excavations at the Minton Factory: Shedding New Light on 19th-century 
Pottery Kilns Jonathan Goodwin
 
  
 
Rob Hunter
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