[Illustration: PLATE IX] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _CONVENTIONAL CUP PLATES_ It is impossible to describe fully the vast number of conventional cup plates but there are two in the author’s collection that do not fit into any group. One “A” has 26 large stars on a clear field. N. E. G. It is a very early plate and I like to call it “the States.” The other “C” is a later plate of which I do not know of a duplicate. The center is a feathered nine pointed star in octagon medallion and the border is a mother goose design with four children, four trees, a pig, and other nursery rhyme scenery. We illustrate these together with a rare slipware proof of the ship Cadmus “B”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _THE HEART SERIES_ H1. Single large heart in center background of concentric circles. Fourteen clear glass hearts in border. H2. The Valentine. Two hearts in center pierced with arrows, small flowers on stippled background, lyres in border. H3. Four interlaced hearts in center, nine hearts in border with sheaf of wheat between. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE X] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ H4. Same as No. 3 with variation in wheat and three stipples above. H5. Ten sided edge serrated, thirteen stippled hearts in border, geometrical center with stipple background. H6. Twelve sided edge, thirteen stippled hearts in border, center like No. 5, no serrations. H7. Thirteen stippled hearts in border, center like No. 5. H8. Same as No. 7 with twelve stippled hearts in border, two lobes of center design also stippled. H9. Same as No. 8 with two stars between each heart, center like No. 6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE XI] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ H10. Same as No. 7 larger size cup plate. H11. Larger plate type of No. 8 with four lobes of center design clear. Not illustrated. H12. Small plate (size of bee hive) six hearts forming center with wheel of dew drops between, edge has bull’s eye in each serration. Hearts are very heavily stippled in waffle design. H13. Fourteen stippled heart border with fourteen five pointed stars in diamonds super imposed on hearts in border, center peacock feather design with star in each bull’s eye. H14. Twelve sided flower border serrated edge, small stipple triangle in center, three small hearts in feathered scrolls. H15. Thirteen stippled hearts in border slightly larger cup plate than No. 7, background of center clear.