. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the pipe-maker ofNewcastle-under-Lyme, I am pleased to be enabled to say,that from recent researches I am justified in believing thepipes engraved on the next page to have been made by a hundred of these pipes, each bearing the initials ofC. R., found in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, and at otherplaces in the pottery district, have come under my notice, andare, I think, without doubt, o
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the pipe-maker ofNewcastle-under-Lyme, I am pleased to be enabled to say,that from recent researches I am justified in believing thepipes engraved on the next page to have been made by a hundred of these pipes, each bearing the initials ofC. R., found in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, and at otherplaces in the pottery district, have come under my notice, andare, I think, without doubt, of his workmanship. They arepeculiarly interesting too, as showing the transition, in thelifetime of one maker, from the flat heel to the pointedspur. The first example on the engraving on the next pagehas the flat heel,* bearing the stamp of the maker, C. R.,with crescent above and below. The second illustration * The flat heels served as rests for the pipes; the old-fashionedsmokers resting them on the table while they enjoyed the weed. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF 49 shows a pipe with the pointed spur, bearing the same stampon the front of the bowl. It is thus shown, that on the. ihange of fashion, the maker being unable to place his mark in its usual position, was compelled either toabandon it altogether, or to impress it on the bowl. Anothermark used by Riggs (also shown on the engraving) wassimply his initials C. K, and this, too, occurs on pipes ofboth , speaking of the clays of the pottery district, says— As for Tolacco-pipe days, they are found all over the county, nearWrottcsley House, and Stile Cop, in Cannock Wood, whereof theymake pipes at Armitage and Lichfield, both which, though they aregreyish clays, yet bui-n very white. There is Tolacco-pipe clay alsofound at Darlaston, near Wedncsbury, but of late disused, becauseof better and cheaper found in Monway field, betwixt Wedncsburyand Willingswortb, which is of a whitish colour, and makes exc
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