Reassembled Redware - save your shards!

[Ratzilla]

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

 

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Strait line decoration, circa late 1700's...

 

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Another straight line decoration, these black on yellow plates are generally thought to be English. This came from a circa 1750's hole.

 

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Sort of a windmill pattern, from an 1830's - 40's hole.

 

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Whoops, wrong picture with that last one...correct description for that is straight lines with combed edges, came from a circa 1720 - 40 hole...

 

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This is where this goes - Sort of a windmill pattern, from an 1830's - 40's hole.

 

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From a mid 1840's hole, was laying on the bottom in 3 pieces...

 

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Sort of a random mottled design, from a mid - late 1700's hole...

 

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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?

 

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Damn, forgot the picture...