Back in 1999, URS excavated and assemblage of hotelwares from a farm field
that probably represented what was left from food waste brought to feed
pigs. We presented a paper on this titled "Sherds from and Unknown Diner
near Pompton Plains, New Jersey" at the 1999 SHA meetings by George L.
Miller and Bernard W. Slaughter. We did not get around to publishing the
paper, but I have a copy online if anyone is interested. Contact me off
line.
Peace,
George
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:35 AM, George Myers <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> "Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of
> New York City" By Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal, Editors,
> Springer, Feb 3, 2013. Available on line, the following from a Google
> search.
>
> In it there is a discussion about the "armorial ware" of Cortland Van
> Buren, and as told me by Diane Wall, one of the reasons the site was
> excavated, the "big man" idea in historical archaeology. He was a Sachem of
> Tammany Society, and as such "was an agent of influence and change".
> "Several of the porcelain vessels were monogrammed "CVB," which clearly
> associated the deposits with Cortland Van Buren" a wealthy grocer.
>
> Incidentally the Mayor of NYC used to give his TV presentations in front of
> a large portrait of Martin VAn Buren. It has been replaced by one of
> Alexander Hamilton.
>
> George Myers
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:00 AM, HISTARCH automatic digest system <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > There is 1 message totaling 119 lines in this issue.
> >
> > Topics of the day:
> >
> > 1. Ceramics with names/crests
> >
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> >
> > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:07:27 +0000
> > From: "C. Cessford" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Ceramics with names/crests
> >
> > Dear George,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the information. Both the examples that you
> > quote are exactly the sort of thing that I was looking for.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > Craig Cessford
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I find your project on ceramics that are marked for institutions that
> > > are
> > > recovered at a distance from those institutions interesting. Back in
> > > the
> > > early 1970s a bowl from the Atlantic Lunch in Washington D.C. was
> > > recovered
> > > from the excavation of Tabbs Purchase in St. Mary's City, Maryland
> > > which
> > > was sixty miles from that restaurant. Oral History showed a community
> > > connection between the Atlantic Lunch and St. Mary's County. My
> > > article
> > > "Ode to a Lunch Bowl: The Atlantic Lunch as an interface between St.
> > > Mary's
> > > County, Maryland and Washington D.C." was published in the 1986 volume
> > > of *Northeast
> > > Historical Archaeology* Volume 13, pages 2-8. This article can be
> > > downloaded for free from the web site of the Council for Northeast
> > > Historical Archaeology.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There is another situation where institutional vessels may be recovered
> > > a
> > > long distance from the intended use. We lived in Roebling, New Jersey
> > > from
> > > 1995 to 2008. Roebling is 15 miles south of Trenton, New Jersey that
> > > had a
> > > massive pottery industry that made a lot of hotelwares. My wife, Amy
> > > C.
> > > Earls, began collecting these wares from the local flea markets and
> > > antique
> > > shops. Many of these wares were from hotels in New York, Florida,
> > > Massachusetts and other places. A number of them have slight defects
> > > that
> > > meant they were seconds. When an intuition placed an order for wares
> > > with
> > > their crest, the pottery company would produce more vessels that
> > > ordered,
> > > so that the order would only be filled with perfect wares. Those that
> > > were
> > > less than perfect wound up in the local communities around the
> > > potteries
> > > and would have been available at a lower cost. Hope this helps.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > >
> > > George L. Miller
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:13 AM, C. Cessford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Dear all,
> > >>
> > >> I am currently conducting some work on ceramics that have been marked
> > >> by
> > >> the manufacturer with the name and/or crest of an individual or
> > >> institution
> > >> who ordered the ceramics. My work relates to the University of
> > >> Cambridge
> > >> and we have recovered material associated with a number of colleges
> > >> from
> > >> several sites that indicate that the pottery was deposited some
> > >> distance
> > >> from the actual college. It appears that some college vessels may have
> > >> passed through several stages between primary use and ultimate
> > >> deposition.
> > >>
> > >> The marking of ceramics with the name etc. of an
> > >> individual/institution is
> > >> a relatively widespread 18th-20th century practice and I am looking
> > >> for
> > >> parallels for discovering marked ceramics some distance for the point
> > >> of
> > >> usage.
> > >>
> > >> The only North American example I am aware of relates to the Earl of
> > >> Dunmore, the last crown governor of Virginia (1771-75). Fragments from
> > >> his
> > >> service of armorial porcelain have been found at various sites in
> > >> Williamsburg, possibly because they were carried off when the
> > >> Governor's
> > >> Palace was ransacked or sold when Dunsmore's surviving personal
> > >> effects
> > >> were auctioned off. My references for this date to the 1960's so I
> > >> would be
> > >> interested in anything more recent on this.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for any pointers.
> > >>
> > >> Craig Cessford
> > >>
> >
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