Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States; Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
A plate with a view of Transylvania University in the centre. On either
side are rows of stiff poplar-trees, and in the foreground a man and
woman walking. The print is in a good shade of dark blue, and has the
poor shell border. It is marked on the back with an eagle, shield, and
“E Pluribus Unum,” and words “Transylvania University Lexington.” Also
the impressed mark of E. Wood & Sons. I have rarely seen this plate—one
lot of three only, and all three were rather indistinctly and poorly
printed; still they may be plentiful in the South or in the neighborhood
of the University.
190. Lexington. Transylvania University.
Transylvania University. A print in black or light blue of a smaller
representation of the University and grounds. Apparently quite modern.
Little Falls. Erie Canal.
See No. 170.
191. Louisville. Marine Hospital.
A rich dark blue plate with shell border. Stamp on back, “Marine
Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.” This is doubtless by E. Wood & Sons.
Macdonough Victory.
See No. 188.
Marine Hospital. Louisville.
See No. 191.
192. Maryland. Arms of State. T. Mayer.
A large oval soup-tureen and plates, printed in dark blue, with a
handsome and spirited version of the arms of the State of Maryland. The
stamp of T. Mayer and the blue mark of an eagle that appear on these
pieces are fully described on page 324. The border is a beautiful design
of trumpet flowers and roses, while the extreme edge of the plates is
ornamented with a conventionalized laurel wreath broken at intervals of
about six inches with a star.
Mayflower. Landing of The.
See No. 240.
193. Mendenhall Ferry. Stubbs.
A print in clear dark blue of a landscape with cattle in the foreground
and a comfortable house, a story and a half high, a Lombardy poplar and
an elm-tree, and a narrow river. In the background, on the opposite side
of the river, hills with several dwelling-houses. The main point is the
ferry—a cable stretching across the river, and by which boats were taken
from side to side. The ferry-boat is shown. The border is a scroll, with
eagles with half-spread wings and flowers, such as is shown on page 354.
Though these pieces have no maker’s stamp, the impressed mark on pieces
bearing the same border is “Stubbs.” The only mark on this piece is the
name Mendenhall Ferry in an oval medallion. Mendenhall is an old
Pennsylvania name, but I do not know where the ferry was located. Joseph
Mendenhall owned a farm of a thousand acres on the Brandywine, below
Shadd’s Ford, in Chester County, and it is very probable that the ferry
was there.
Merchants’ Exchange. New York.
See No. 204.
194. Millennium.
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