Drs. Varman & Ross,
        Thanks to both of you for the illustrations and bibliography.  We at
Augusta State University (in Augusta, Georgia - on TV when the Master's
Golf Tournament is played next week) have been trying for about the last
year and a half to expand our reference collection on ceramics (found
some undisturbed trash pits with early 19th century ceramics associated
with the US arsenal which occupied the site [1826-1955], although
nothing like as much as Dr. Varman's privy pits).  Our experi- ence has
been that a number of the classic works are out of print and Xerox
copies of china photographs just aren't all one would like for ceramic
identification.
 
        If any other members of the list know of similar high quality
illustrations of post 1800 English ceramic wares, I would certainly like
to hear of them, and I will look forward to the additional material Dr.
Varman plans to put on his site.
 
        Thanks again for making our work easier,
 
        Chris Murphy
 
        Christopher P. H. Murphy, Ph.D.
        Associate Professor of Anthropology
        Augusta State University
 
Lester Ross wrote:
>
> Dr. Varman:  Revisited you web site and found the illustrations and
> text to be excellent.  The 'COPELAND' ceramic pattern on web page:
>     http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6559/scc139.html
> is the pattern "Continental Views."  A pull of this transfer print for
> a 6" plate is illustrated as Fig. 98 on p. 94 of:
> Sussman, Lynne
> 1979  Spode/Copeland Transfer-Printed Patterns Found at 20 Hudson's
> Bay Company Sites.  Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in
> Archaeology and History 22.  Parks Canada, Ottawa.
>
> If you do not know this publication, it illustrates over 100 of the
> Spode/Copeland patterns imported ca. 1830s through the early 20th
> century into North America by the Hudson's Bay Company.  Most of the
> patterns are illustrated with photographs of pulls acquired from the
> original factory coppers.  It is a classic work, but may now be
> out-of-print.  Perhaps one of the Parks Canada subscribers to HISTARCH
> can provide a definitive reply.
>
> Lynne provides nine pages of illustrations of the various design
> elements for Continental Views (Figs. 96-109, pp. 92-100), and her
> description of the pattern is as follows:
>     "Continental Views (1845-post-1882).  Registered 21 October 1845.
> The border was registered on 2 December 1844 under the name 'Louis
> Quatorze.'  The central designs for the latter patterns are
> considerably smaller and less elaborate than those of Continental
> Views.&nbs p; Excavated examples were made by Copeland and Garrett,
> and W.T. Copeland.  Continental Views appears in W.T. Copeland and
> Sons' 1882 catalogue (Sussman 1979:92)."
>
> Sussman (1979:Table 1, pp. 12-13) reported the earliest and latest
> contexts for Continental Views as:
>     Early - Fort Pelly I, 1824-1856
>     Late - South Battleford 1876-1885 and Fort Victoria (Alberta)
> 1864-1897
>
> Another source containing useful information about this pattern is:
> Jackson, Louise M.
> 1991  Nineteenth Century British Ceramics: A key to Cultural Dynamics
> in Southwestern Alaska.  Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology,
> University of California at Los Angeles.
>     - available from University Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeeb
> Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 USA
>
> For a ten-year period (1840-1850), the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)  had
> a formal trade agreeement to supply goods to the Russian American
> Company (RAC).  Louise has studied the distribution of Spode/Copeland
> ceramic patterns throughout the northern Pacific Rim, and Continental
> Views/Louis Quatorze has been found in RAC territory.  Louise notes
> that:
>     "The Continental Views/Louis Quatorze border (Figure 5e) was also
> used by George Jones & Sons between 1891 and 1924 (Coysh and Henrywood
> 1989:57).  However, judging from the context and body quality of
> excavated examples versus items that I have handled that were
> manufactured by George Jones & Sons, I am fairly certain that the
> examples in southwestern Alaska are all Spode/Copeland (Jackson
> 1991:59)."
>
> Coysh, A.W., and R.K. Henrywood
> 1989  The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880,
> Volume II.  The Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk,
> England.
>
> Since the HBC-RAC trade agreement expired in 1850, it appears that
> Continenta l View/Louis Quatorze border was imported into western
> North America shortly after its inception, ca. 1844-1850.
>
> Hope you find this information of help.  I may have additional
> information regarding some of your other artifacts, but it will take
> awhile to extract it.  Les
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