. American homes and gardens . St. Pauls Chapel, Six-inch Plate. Church in Murray Street, Soup Plate, Ten Inch. Cathedral, Six-inch, in the Collections of Mrs. Emma deF. Morse andAlex. M. Hudnut. Small Washbowl and Pitcher, Showing Old Capitol Building at Albany, Medallions ofPeter Stuyvesant, Chancellor Kent, Washington, and Clinton. A Unique Specimen,the Only One Known. Property of Mrs. Emma deF. Morse have one plate showing the Park Theater view. I do notconsider this a debatable question, for the correct answer istoo obvious. A perfect collection would, in my judgment,contain a


. American homes and gardens . St. Pauls Chapel, Six-inch Plate. Church in Murray Street, Soup Plate, Ten Inch. Cathedral, Six-inch, in the Collections of Mrs. Emma deF. Morse andAlex. M. Hudnut. Small Washbowl and Pitcher, Showing Old Capitol Building at Albany, Medallions ofPeter Stuyvesant, Chancellor Kent, Washington, and Clinton. A Unique Specimen,the Only One Known. Property of Mrs. Emma deF. Morse have one plate showing the Park Theater view. I do notconsider this a debatable question, for the correct answer istoo obvious. A perfect collection would, in my judgment,contain about three hundred pieces. Some scenes occur only on the irregular pieces of a chinaset, but the large majority of subjects which collectors wantare on the flat pieces such as plates, platters, and the trays of soup tureens or gravyboats. These flat piecesare naturally the mostsought after because theycan be hung on the walland form an attractivemural decoration. Thebest collections of OldBlue that I know of arehung on dining-roomwalls. It is important thatthe wall covering be care-fully selected with the ideathat it may be a suitablebackground for properlybringing out the dark bluecolor of the china


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