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Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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tors : whereas Sadler only claimed thatdistinction. It is stated that the printing was over-glaze. If correct it would settle the dispute as towhether underglaze printing was done at Liverpool atan early period or not. The question has been raisedby Professor Barber of America. The facts are againsthis theory, and the point will be discussed further on. * Mr. Mayer mentions a memo, amongst Sadlers papers which shows thathe wished to be reheved from business at the time (1766). It proposed to obtaina partner who was to put £200 into the concern as equal to a third part of the value ofthe engravings, valued then at £600, but had cost £800. That amount then wouldbe equal to a great deal more now. Yet it seems, even with that consideration, tohave been but a small capital to yield such a return as to enable Sadler to retirein a few years afterwards. No partner seems to have been procured ; and Greenwould appear to have been left in sole charge when Mr. Sadler left him. 12 Plate No. VI.
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Origin. Meantime, let us proceed with our examination of allthe facts which are known regarding the introductionof transfer printing at Liverpool. In a description of the town, published in TheLiverpool Memorandum Book, or Gentlemans, Mer-chants, and Tradesmans Daily Pocket Journal for theyear 1754, it is stated that the chief manufacturescarried on here are blue and white earthenware, whichat present almost vie with china. Indeed, at onetime, pottery appears to have been the staple manu-facture of the town. Extracted from Catalogue ofSpecimens in the Museum of Practical Geology(1876), p. 244. By Mayers Art of Pottery, &c., we find thatJohn Sadler died in 1789, aged 69 ; that Guy Greenretired from business in 1799; that Sadler and Greenwere mentioned in Gores Liverpool Directory in 1769;but that only Green appeared in the edition for 1774.Miss Meteyard asserts that Sadler retired before 1772.Guy Green was alive in 1801, because his portraitwas painted then by W. Dixon, Liverpool,

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