We commonly get large numbers of U.S. Grant Hotel wares throughout the San
Diego County, including sometimes large numbers of them on rural sites many,
many miles from downtown. When businesses went out of business, their wares
were auctioned off and purchased by various buyers for ultimate purposes
unknown. Boarding house owners, as well as farms employing large numbers of
workers, would not care if something was monogrammed.
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While in college in the late 1970s, I worked in the cafeteria dishwashing
room. Any food left on plates was scraped from plates and bowls into large
gray trash barrels which were then collected by a local pig farmer. I know
that those of us who worked in there were not particularly careful (of
course I was an exception) of what went into the barrel. So it would not
surprise me to hear of Franklin Pierce College cafeteria ware and silverware
showing up at surrounding area farms. As an aside, as the semester went on
the cafeteria would reach critical shortages of silverware due to students
supplying their own needs. Who knows where that ended up at the end of the
semester or school year. They also had critical shortages of cafeteria
trays as the winter sledding season came on.
Harding Polk II
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And I have several instances of 1930s+ deposits in plowed fields of
institutional and commercial wares that clearly represent spreading in
Maryland.
One small field about 20 miles east of Washington, DC, yielded several
patterns
of the same kind of decaled earthenware and glass swizzle sticks. Motorized
transportation, specifically trucks, provide the integral component for
trucking
institutional and commercial kitchen wastes comprised largely of organics,
but
with inclusions of ceramic and glass vessel sherds, to local pig farms. The
material was fed to the pigs and the resulting manure, along with the sherds
that pigs are so adept at eating around without ingesting, was collected and
spread on nearby corn fields. The deposits express as remarkably uniform and
extensive scatters of vessel sherds across fields. The lack of architectural
debris is key to distinguishing between manuring and dwelling sites. There
is
confirming oral history to support the characterizations in so
me instances.
James G. Gibb
Gibb Archaeological Consulting
2554 Carrollton Road
Annapolis, Maryland USA ?? 21403
443.482.9593 (Land) 410.693.3847 (Cell)
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On 03/17/14, Eric Deetz<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I worked on a survey where hotel dinnerware from and flatware downtown
Chicago
were recovered in ag fields more than 90 miles from the city. We later
learned
that this was the site of a small siized pig farm and thwe material was
likely
transported in the "slop". there was another case where fields in Loudoun
County
Virginia were manured with hotel/retauraunt waste including porcelainious
china
and institutional flatware.
J. Eric Deetz
Coastal Carolina Research
A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 1198 Tarboro, NC 27886
(252) 641-1444 (252) 641-1235 fax
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Ceramics with
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Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:07:27 +0000From: "C. Cessford" Subject: Re: Ceramics
with
names/crestsDear 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.YoursCraig 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 Wash
ington 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 > p
otteries> 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
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 onl
y 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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