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Engined Turned

Pearlware barrel form jug. Pattern cut through slip bands with two different knives between bands of green glazed herringbone and beads rouletting. c. 1820. 6.5 inches in height.

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Pint mug. One of the most common engine turned inlay patterns. Probably Wood & Caldwell, Burslem, Staffordshire, 1790 - 1818. 5 inches in height.

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Pint mug. "Blind" engine-turning using a curved blade with crown cam and no slip inlay. 5 inches in height.

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Pint mug. Impressed mark Wood & Caldwell. Inlays in two colors. A 1797 invoice of this firm includes the terms Brick, Chainband, Bastile, Mocoa, and Fr. Fray, plain. I believe the first three to be engine-turned or rouletted pattern names. The rouletted pattern on this mug may be the chain band referenced. 5 inches in height.

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Pearlware salt with engine turned pattern and green glazed rilling or reeding. 1.5 inches in height.  

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Ruth Saloon (18BC79)
Brick-lined privy (Feature R-5)
c. 1780 – 1830

Engine turning on common-shape bowl. Green-glazed rilling or reeding.

Bull's Head Tavern (18BC139)
Privy Feature 9
c. 1800 - 1830

Bowl with inlaid rouletting.

Federal Reserve (18BC127)
Privy Feature 26

Possible chainband pattern on pearlware jug.

Bull's Head Tavern (18BC139)
Privy Feature 9
c. 1800 -1830