UNITED STATES.

(FROM OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.)

HE Staffordshire manufacturers of white THE granite ware for the American market have just made a very judicious move in reducing the price of "teas" about 10 per cent. It appears that through recent improvements in the use of the "jolly," teas can be produced much cheaper than formerly, and in view of the depressed state of trade and the American competition, it seems the essence of trade wisdom to produce and sell goods as cheaply as possible. "Teas" are the staple in white granite trade, and form a large proportion in all orders for that kind of goods, and hence in losing their sale there

as risk that the sale of other articles would also be proportionately reduced. We are in about the middle of the dull season, and little movement is expected before the month of August; there is, however, a decidedly hopeful feeling as to autumn trade in all branches of business. Dull as the china and earthenware trade of the United States has been for several years, it is a positive fact that relatively the importation of English goods has been increasing in the lines known as fancy and decorated goods, as compared with similar goods imported from France and Germany. The business enterprise and greatly improved taste lately manifested by the Staffordshire potters is worthy of all praise, and as the general trade of this country improves, there is no reason to doubt that a very large increase in the demand for English earthenware, especially in printed and decorated goods, will be developed.

The following appeared in the American Crockery and Glass Journal for July 10. "Perhaps it would not be amiss for me to quote a few words from the correspondent of The Pottery Gazette, London, who is in this country as a commisioner specially despatched to make an investigation of our ceramic manufactures. His frank admission and open criticism in his letter of June 16, is as follows: If the United States potteries keep on increasing at the same rate as they have previously done for the last ten years, I shall certainly begin to quail for the future state of the American demand. In going over the works and examining different samples of white granite ware, I found them quite equal to the English make. One thing they are at present greatly deficient in, and that is originality of design; for both in design and shape they closely copy our English patterns. There has been springing up for some time past a demand for decorative ware. The splendid displays which were shown at the Philadelphia Exhibition gave a great impetus to this branch, and has induced the American potters to go into the manufacture of this class of goods. As they cannot procure good decorators so easily as they might desire, I believe some of the manufacturers are endeavouring to arrange for first-class men to come out from England.' This commissioner

USE OF GLASS THREAD.

TRADE CARDS.

JAMES BEST,

China, Clay, and Stone Merchant,
Stoke-on-Trent,

Fleitmann & Witte's Oxide of Cobalt, &c.

OLIVER LODGE,

Dealer in Clay, Lead, Borax, Cobalt, &c.,
Longport, Staffordshire.

G. H. HAMMERSLEY,

Stoke-on-Trent.

W. J. Pike's Blue Clay and Thriscutt, and
Bale's Caudledown China Clay.

J. & G. VERNON,

Manufacturers of Earthenware for the
South American, West Indian, and
Mediterranean Markets,
Waterloo Pottery,

brought to a state of fusion, a glass
O make fine glass thread, the glass is
rod dipped in it, and thus a thread pulled
out, which solidifies first in its thinnest
parts, and so causes a thread of uniform JAMES VERNON & SON,

thickness to be obtained.

If this thread is

In the

Burslem, Staffordshire.

Potters' Valuers,

Burslem, Staffordshire.

Manufacturer of

THE LATE CHARLES MASSEY'S

Enamel and Under Glaze Colours, 54, Bucknall New Road, Hanley. ALFRED W. STEELE,

A.

Engraver,

Queen Street, Burslem, Staffordshire.
BOONE & SONS,

Glass, China, and Earthenware
Colour Manufacturers,
Old Hall Terrace, Hanley.
BROWNHILLS POTTERY CO.,

Tunstall, Staffordshire.

placed over a hot metallic cylinder, and the
latter revolved, any length of thread may
be obtained; the thread may be obtained JOSEPH COLCLOUGHI,
finer by revolving the cylinder more rapidly.
The heating of the cylinder has the effect of
annealing the glass to some extent, while
the rapid cooling, if wound on a cold
cylinder, would make it more brittle. A
bundle of such threads looks like a bunch
of silk, and it has therefore been called
glass silk. Its usefulness to chemists and
druggists has lately been brought to the
notice of the French Société de Pharmacie
by M. Limousin. It is now largely used in
Germany, and especially in Austria, for
filtering liquids in laboratories.
microscope the threads are as fine as those THE
of silk or fibrilla of cotton; they break
more easily than the latter, but are ex-
cessively supple. From the unalterability
of the substance it is very well suited for
filtering acid or alkaline solutions, even
concentrated, and various other substances,
such as nitrate of silver, albumen, collodion,
Fehling's liquor, &c. It affords great ra-
pidity of flow, with good filtration; it does
not, like filters of paper or tissue, communi-
cate organic matters to the liquids, altering
and perhaps giving them a disagreeable
taste. It is much preferable to asbestos,
which, from the arrangement of its parallel
fibres, cannot be formed into a flexible ball,
and which lets fragments pass that float in
the liquid. For analysis it is very advanta-
geous, allowing of a ready determination of
insoluble matters deposited; also by calcina-
tion and fusion of the glass may be found
the volatile principles fixed in the passage
of the liquid, unmixed with empyreumatic
products. Notwithstanding the price of
glass silk is still high, it is no great expense
to use it, as its excessive lightness admits of
a considerable number of filtrations being
made with a small weight of it; besides, it
may serve an indefinite time, if after each
operation it is thoroughly washed with
water and dried in the air.

EDWIN SHERRATT,

Potters Colour Manufacturer, and Dealer
in Best Ground and Lump Felspar,
19A, Bleak Street, Bleak Hill,
Burslem, Staffordshire

ENTERPRISE Fronstone China, Earthenware, and Cabinet STAFFORD STREET, LONGTON,

Important to Pottery and Glass JAMES BEECH, T. J. & JAMES EMBERTON,

Underglaze, Majolica, & Enamel Engineer and Millwright,

Private Address-MOUNT PLEASANT, STOKE-ON-TRENT. HANOVER ST., BURSLEM.

Plain and Ornamental China Home, Foreign, & Colonial Markets,

GEORGE GRAINGER & CO.,
WORCESTER ROYAL CHINA WORKS (ESTABLISHED 1801),
Inventors and Sole Manufacturers of the

WORCESTER SEMI PORCELAIN" PRIZE WARE FOR DINNER SERVICES, &c., &c.

TESTIMONIAL.-Grainger's "Semi or Chemical Porcelain" is decidedly the best of English Manufacture that has ever come under my observation. The Glaze resists the most corrosive liquids, &c., &c.-Dr. FRANKLAND, F.R.8., Professor of Chemistry.

Manufacturers of the Opalite Perforated and Páte sur Fate-Vases in great variety; also Porcelain Desserts. Tea and Breakfast Sets of every Class.

ILLUSTRATED SHEETS UPON APPLICATION.

UNITED STATES, CANADA,

AUSTRALIA, FRANCE,

IMPORTANT

NOTICE

To POTTERY and GLASS MANUFACTURERS.

SPECIAL NOTICE

OF

AUGUST 1, 1879.

New Samples must be prepared and sent off WITHOUT DELAY, as within a month or so the principal buyers of the Provinces and Paris make their most extensive purchases.

Manufacturers not yet represented in France and other Continental countries, should write at once for terms,

J. L.

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