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Cool!
We have found 'generic' AETCo marked wall tiles in a few projects out
here in San Diego (and I ID'd them thanks to eBay!). Well, one was
mottled, but not an identifiable 'design' tile, as the company is known
for making.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL
>ARCHAEOLOGY
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Bob Skiles
>Sent: Sunday, November 04,
>2007 5:51 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: inadvertent urban
>archaeology
>
>A Decorative Piece of
>Subway History Is Unearthed
>in a Busy Station
>
>By DAVID W. DUNLAP
>Published: November 2, 2007
>[New York Times]
>A lovely little piece of
>subway history on the
>uptown platform of the No.
>1 line at 59th Street-
>Columbus Circle - so old it
>actually antedates the
>trains - was concealed from
>generations of riders by a
>false wall.
>
>With the false wall being
>removed as part of the
>station renovation, history
>has come to light again: a
>blue-and-white Art Nouveau
>plaque, with a flowery
>border (worthy of willow
>ware) encircling the words,
>"The Tiles in This Exhibit
>are the product of the
>American Encaustic Tiling
>Co. Limited / Zanesville
>Ohio / New-York N.Y."
>
>What exhibit?
>
>... pix & the remainder of
>the story here:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007
>/11/02/nyregion/02plaque.ht
>ml?_r=1&oref=slogin
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