I'll go with nigh. 

Daniel B. Davis
Archaeologist Coordinator
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250
-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Susan Walter
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Historic mending/gluing of ceramics

A typo perhaps?

"...copy the pattern as
night as possible..."



perhaps should be "right"?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Historic mending/gluing of ceramics


The following 1767 advertisement for mending china and other items may
be
of interest.  There are other advertisements for mending with staples,
but
this one seems different.


            "Maria Warwell, Intending shortly to depart this province,
....
And while she waits for a passage, will be much obliged to those who
will
employ her, in mending in the neatest and most durable manner, all sorts
of
useful and ornamental China, viz: beakers, Tureens, jars, vases, busts;
statues, either in china, glass, plaster, bronze or marble; should a
piece
be wanting, she will substitute a composition in its room, and copy the
pattern as night as possible.  N.B. She lives near Mrs. White's house on
the Hard, Trott's Point."



From the *South Carolina Gazette & Country Journal*, July 21, 1767. 
extracted
by



Alfred Cox Prime, compiler

1929    *The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South
Carolina*published by the Walpole Society, Philadelphia.
Page 128.




Peace,
George L. Miller

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, MARA KAKTINS <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello Histarchers,
>
> Here at Ferry Farm, George Washington's boyhood home, we have been
doing
> some analysis of his mother, Mary Ball Washington's, teawares and have
> found substantial evidence of historic mending.  There are a number of
> creamware vessels we're looking at which have unmistakably been glued 
> prior
> to deposition (these are clearly not organic deposits on the sherds
but
> rather deliberate applications of glue around earlier breaks).  As
such, 
> we
> are now very interested in other assemblages that may have similar
mending
> activities going on and are trying to learn as much as we can about
pot
> mending and glues from around the 18th century.  If anyone out there
has
> any information to this effect we would be very grateful!  Please
contact
> me off list at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> -Mara Kaktins
>
>
> --
> Mara Kaktins, MA, R.P.A.
> Temple Univeristy
> Archaeology
> (215)-806-2600
> [log in to unmask]
>


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