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excellence of quality, design, and decoration.  Their
Wedgwood ware mortars and pestles are characterized by
extreme hardness of body and smoothness of finish.
About 1886 Mr. Connelly commenced experimenting
in Belleek china. He succeeded in producing some ex-
quisitely thin trial pieces of the finest grade, but the ware
was never made in sufficient quantity to place upon the
market. The few pieces which were produced, consisting
of small ewers, cups, and saucers, were fired in the large
kilns with the sanitary ware. This branch of the business
was not developed beyond the experimental stage, al-
though at the time of Mr. Connelly's death, in 1890,
success was assured.
THE INTERNATIONAL POTTERY.
In 1878 Messrs. James Carr, of New York, and Ed-
ward Clarke, of England, commenced the manufacture of
cream-colored and white granite wares, as the Lincoln
Pottery Company, in the old Speeler works, one of the
first potteries built in Trenton for the manufacture of
Rockingham and yellow wares. Mr. Carr retired within
a few months, and Mr. Clarke, with others, founded the
International Pottery Co. In 1879 the business was pur-
chased by the present proprietors, Mr. William Burgess,
now United States Consul at Tunstall, England, in the
pottery district, and Mr. John A. Campbell, who have
retained the corporate title. Porcelain was made here,
with varying success, for some years previous to 1888,
when a new body, of exceptional standing qualities, was
produced, and has been made to the present time. The

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