I think there is some confusion here as 
manufacturers/collectors/arcaheologists terminology does not correspond. 
Personally i would not use the term unless as a manufactures mark.


paul courtney


Ariadne Moore wrote:

>>Chris,
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>Is the piece you wrote published somewhere?  I would like to read it, if
>possible.  I too was operating under the apparently misguided notion that
>Queensware referred exclusively to cream-colored wares.
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>--Ariadne
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>----- Original Message -----
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>>From: "Christopher Fennell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:40 PM
>>Subject: Re: Midwestern Farmstead Biblio
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>>>Mark --
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>>>Here's a short excerpt from something I wrote a while back that
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>>addresses
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>>>some of the variant uses of the terms queensware and whiteware by
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>>pottery
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>>>manufacturers:
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>>>The 1807 embargo deprived American markets of many imported goods,
>>>including British ceramics (Myers 1980:5). The Philadelphia pottery
>>>manufacturers responded with increased production and expansion of their
>>>product lines to fill this unmet demand (Myers 1980:5). In addition to
>>>their long-standing lines of utilitarian earthenwares and stonewares, by
>>>1813 Philadelphia pottery manufacturers were advertising extensive lines
>>>of their own form of "Queensware" whiteware to replace the popular line
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>>of
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>>>tablewares produced in Staffordshire (Barber 1909:111; Ketchum 1971:120;
>>>Myers 1980:6-7). This undertaking was the subject of proud report by the
>>>Governor of Pennsylvania in his annual message to the state legislature
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>>in
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>>>1809, stating that "'we have lately established in Philadelphia a
>>>queensware pottery on an extensive scale'" (Barber 1909:111). Potteries
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>>in
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>>>Baltimore were producing whitewares by the 1840s, and the pottery
>>>manufacturers of East Liverpool, Ohio lived up to their town's
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>>challenging
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>>>name by producing whitewares comparable to Queensware by the 1850s
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>>(Barber
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>>>1909:196; Ketchum 1971:134, 137).
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>>>Barber, Edwin A. 1909. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States.
>>>New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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>>>Ketchum, William C., Jr. 1971. The Pottery and Porcelain Collector's
>>>Handbook.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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>>>Myers, Susan H. 1980. Handcraft to Industry: Philadelphia Ceramics in
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>>the
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>>>First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
>>>Institution Press.
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>>>Cheers,
>>>Chris
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