The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgewood and Other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of StaffordshireVirtue Brothers and Company, 1865 - 435 pages |
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... Elers discovered by Stratagem . - Discovery of the Use of Flint . - Thomas Wedgwood.— The " Churchyard " Works , Burslem , as they were , and as they are . -Descent of the Property . - Messrs . Bridgwood and Clarke.- Productions of the ...
... Elers discovered by Stratagem . - Discovery of the Use of Flint . - Thomas Wedgwood.— The " Churchyard " Works , Burslem , as they were , and as they are . -Descent of the Property . - Messrs . Bridgwood and Clarke.- Productions of the ...
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... Elers , traditionally believed to have been potters , from Holland , are said to have followed the Prince of Orange ( William III . ) to England , and two years later to have settled at Bradwell and at Dimsdale- two very secluded ...
... Elers , traditionally believed to have been potters , from Holland , are said to have followed the Prince of Orange ( William III . ) to England , and two years later to have settled at Bradwell and at Dimsdale- two very secluded ...
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... Elers , besides the red ware , also produced an exceedingly good Egyptian black , by a mixture of manganese with the clay ; and this was the precursor and origin of the fine black bodies of Josiah Wedgwood and others . " Their extreme ...
... Elers , besides the red ware , also produced an exceedingly good Egyptian black , by a mixture of manganese with the clay ; and this was the precursor and origin of the fine black bodies of Josiah Wedgwood and others . " Their extreme ...
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... Elers was in existence as late as the beginning of the present century , and that the place , in an old account book in my possession , is called the " Eller field . " The two potters who had wormed out the secret of the Elers are said ...
... Elers was in existence as late as the beginning of the present century , and that the place , in an old account book in my possession , is called the " Eller field . " The two potters who had wormed out the secret of the Elers are said ...
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... Elers , * who was commander of the fleet at Hamburg , and who married a princess of the royal house of Baden . By this marriage it appears the Admiral had one son , named Martin Elers , born in 1621. After his father's death , this Martin ...
... Elers , * who was commander of the fleet at Hamburg , and who married a princess of the royal house of Baden . By this marriage it appears the Admiral had one son , named Martin Elers , born in 1621. After his father's death , this Martin ...
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