MARKS OF AMERICAN POTTERS.

Ii AAl Sil IRE )P01'TIKRY,  K Il'NE, N. II.
Messrs. J. S. Taft & Co. operate the Hampshire Pottery
OT RY       at Keene, N. II. It was started in 1871, for the manufacture
of ordiinary wares, and, somewhat later, "majolica" was
made. For the past few years art specialties in white bodies
have been the principal production, mainly souvenir pieces
for summer resorts with printed designs, usually in black.
The three marks used on this class of ware, and generally
printed in red, are here shown.
Io\V M  I 1  1)RD, ( )NN.
The New Alilford Pottery Co. was established as a stock
company in 1886. The products were the ordinary grades of
a OPq       white ware. On C. C. goods the mark was a square with the
initials of the company's name.
For semi-opaque china the eagle mark was used.
NMP co          A limited (]uaititv of ware was made for their New York
agents, \essrs. Lang & Schafer, on which a circular mark
with the firm's initials was placed.
The name of the concern was later changed to The Wan-
nopee Pottery Co., under which title it has since been known.
The marks in present use are sun bursts enclosing a W, one
used on "Duchess" ware, which is characterized by mottled
t ,W  wlazes, and one on porcelain.
The Park Lane Pottery, under the same management, pro-
aIndced a novel ware covered with a metallic glaze, closely
resenbling copper. The mark is the monogram     of the
pottery.
The name ''Scarabronze" was adopted for this ware, the
mark being an Egyptian scarabacus, either applied some-
t\where on the surface in relief, or impressed in the base. A
few pieces were isstied marked with paper labels containing
the scarab in gold. The forms of vases are derived from
the old Egyptian, and the surface of the metallic glaze is