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Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:24:31 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Here in the Philly area broken redware plates are a common find in older holes, but it's amazing how many people just throw all the broken stuff back. Hopefully this assortment of reassembled slipware will inspire you to save your shards, these represent some of the more unusual plates I've dug over the years... First is a big charger from a late 1700's - early 1800's hole with an unusual yet simple decoration Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! Post #: 1

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:25:28 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Strait line decoration, circa late 1700's... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 2

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:27:09 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Another straight line decoration, these black on yellow plates are generally thought to be English. This came from a circa 1750's hole. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 3

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:28:08 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Sort of a windmill pattern, from an 1830's - 40's hole. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 4

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:29:46 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Whoops, wrong picture with that last one...correct description for that is straight lines with combed edges, came from a circa 1720 - 40 hole... _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 5

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:30:56 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline This is where this goes - Sort of a windmill pattern, from an 1830's - 40's hole. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 6

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:32:01 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline From a mid 1840's hole, was laying on the bottom in 3 pieces... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 7

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:33:25 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Sort of a random mottled design, from a mid - late 1700's hole... _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 8

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:33:37 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Those are some amazingly linear patterns on the first couple. I'm used to the squiggles on one of the latter ones. Does that one plate say "Eli" on it? < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 3/1/2011 8:34:55 PM > _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 9

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:34:21 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Damn, forgot the picture... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 10

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:35:14 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline A smaller plate from the same hole Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 11

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:35:32 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9807 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: online quote: ORIGINAL: Ratzilla From a mid 1840's hole, was laying on the bottom in 3 pieces... Does that say "Eli"? _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 12

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:36:17 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline I call this one 'fishbone' pattern, also from the same 1700's pit.. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 13

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:37:59 PM    luckiest   Posts: 227 Joined: 1/12/2010 Status: offline Wow. I like these, great age (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 14

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:38:30 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline This cut design is called 'scraffito', was very popular with the Pennsylvania dutch, but not to many made it as far east as Philly, where this one was dug from a 1770's era hole.. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 15

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:40:01 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Wild multicolor design, possibly English again. From an early 1700's hole. _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 16

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:40:15 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12312 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Were these pices kind of an early interpretation of the disposable plate? The concept intrigues me.. the designs ..well, I'm an artist, and I love all of them..! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 17

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:40:55 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Ooops, forgot the pic again, DOH! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 18

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:42:05 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Another, very similar plate from the same hole, this one has an unusual flat outer rim. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 19

RE: Reassembled Redware - save your shards! - 3/1/2011 8:43:14 PM    Ratzilla   Posts: 422 Joined: 4/29/2009 From: Mullica Hill NJ Status: offline Another funky mottled plate, from pre 1750 layer... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for Camden, NJ bottles! (in reply to Ratzilla) Post #: 20

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