ADDITIONAL HISTORICAL FACTS 457
comports, centre pieces, and large pedestals for support-
ing parian figures and busts. I have before me at the
present time a pair of graceful pilgrim bottles or vases of
antique style, over a foot in height, decorated artistic-
ally with bold floral devices in harmonious colorings,
fully equal in body, glaze, and design to anything of
the kind produced in this country since. At each of the
expositions referred to he was awarded medals for the
superiority of his wares, and in 1877 was similarly hon-
ored by the American Institute, New York, and again in
1879.
In parian, Mr. Carr issued a considerable number of
figures, groups, and portrait busts, some original in model-
ling, others reproduced. One of his principal modellers
was Mr. W. H   Edge, who came from Trenton in 1876.
Among his original busts was a portrait of General Grant,
nineteen inches in height.  Other pieces are a bust of
Charles Sumner, the Grecian Jack Player, Jacob and
Rachel, Night and Morning, Summer, Spilled M\ilk, a
head of Christ, the Forced Prayer, and the Venus of
Milo, all of large size, ranging from fifteen to twenty
inches in greatest measurement.
Mr. Carr is essentially a self-made man and possesses
a striking personality. At the age of eighty he is still an
indefatigable worker, but is no longer engaged in manu-
facturing. Recently he has been engaged in the prepara-
tion of a series of " Recollections of an Old Potter," which,
if he is spared to finish them, will contain much interesting
information of a historical character, that would otherwisle
be lost to the world.