. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics. aybe known. The clear, beautiful shellborder is found on the plates and plat-ters by Wood; and the characteristicscroll, eagle and rose design shows themark of Stobbs, though his name doesnot always appear on the back of hispieces. In the color of the old blue lies itsgreatest charm. There is nothing quitelike its deep, glowing hue. The mak-ers of today use aniline dye, and donot exactly match the long-ago tone. For about fifty years the Stafford-shire wares in the dark rich blue wreresent to this country, after w
. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics. aybe known. The clear, beautiful shellborder is found on the plates and plat-ters by Wood; and the characteristicscroll, eagle and rose design shows themark of Stobbs, though his name doesnot always appear on the back of hispieces. In the color of the old blue lies itsgreatest charm. There is nothing quitelike its deep, glowing hue. The mak-ers of today use aniline dye, and donot exactly match the long-ago tone. For about fifty years the Stafford-shire wares in the dark rich blue wreresent to this country, after which thedesigns were stamped in light blue,brown, pink, green and black. Atthe present time there is a pottery inStaffordshire making honest reproduc-tions of old Wood and Clews potteries,good in color and moderate in the collector must beware of fakes,as these reproductions are sometimesscratched with an emery wheel andboiled in fat, giving such an old-timelook that one may be easily deceived. Enoch Wood, whose pottery was es-tablished in 1784, was one of the first. Staffordshire Cups and Saucers OLD BLUE CHINA 261 to send his wares to America; so nu-merous were his productions that many Jit :*v >v Stobbs Plate a piece still exists. Some of the largeplatters are highly valued, and theplates showing The Landing of thePilgrims are worth thirty designs relating to Lafayette alsoare in great demand. Two of the most famous of theStaffordshire potters were James andRalph Clews, makers of the celebratedstates plates and platters, whichbear the names of the fifteen states ina festoon border. Other potteries withthe Clews imprint are the series show-ing the droll adventures of DoctorSyntax and the American views, whichinclude The Landing of Lafayette,a design high in favor with the col-lector. It is said such respect andhonor were paid to Lafayette by thepatriots, that, even the china, bearingdesigns referring to him, was mostcarefully preserved and is found to
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