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Ward
Table I. Popular decorations found in the center of edge decorated plates.
Handpainted Eagle (Hume 1969:133; Larsen 1975:242)
Chinese house (Hume 1969:129; Author's collection)
Fruit or flowers (Hunter and Miller 1994)
Balloon (Hunter and Miller 1994)
Coat of arms (Hunter and Miller 1994)
Transfer Printed Portraits
Gen. Brown (Larsen 1975:228)
Stephen Decatur (Larsen 1975:228)
Gen. W. H. Harrison (Larsen 1975:228)
"Gen. Jackson Hero of New Orleans" (Larsen 1975:229)
"Capt. Jones of the Macedonian" (Larsen 1975:229)
"Capt. Hull of the Constitution" (Larsen 1975:229)
Lafayette (Moore, 1903:90; Larsen 1975:230)
Lafayette and Washington (Larsen 1975:231)
Capt. James Lawrence (Larsen 1975:232)
Oliver Hazard Perry (Larsen 1975:232)
Zebulon Pike (Larsen 1975:232-33)
Washington (Larsen 1975:232)
Queen Adelaide (Hunter and Miller 1994)
Scenes
Gothic church with lines of verse by Thomas Moore (Hume 1978:49) Arms of the United States (Larsen 1975:240)
Pastoral (Hunter and Miller 1994)_______________________________________
author has in his collection shell-edge plates marked: Guest (ca. 1802), Wedgwood & Co. (ca. 1860s), W. Adams & Co. (1880s-1890s), and James Broadhurst (ca. 1890s). Examples of these marks are shown in Figure 3.
Edge-decorated wares are not only useful for dating purposes but also serve as an indicator of economic scale. In "Classification and Economic Scaling of 19th Century Ceramics," George Miller examined the cost of various earthenwares at different times (Miller 1991). Miller compared the cost in pence of transfer printed Blue Willow, other transfer printed, edge-decorated and cream-colored, or undecorated. Table 2 displays data based on Miller (Miller 1980). According to Miller, embossed, edge-decorated plates sold for slightly more than traditional shell-edge