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| Shell Edge Plates |
Don Carpentier wrote an excellent article titled
Do You Know What the Real Name for this Plate Edge Is? It turns out that what I have been calling feather edge is actually shell edge!
I even own books about feather edge ceramics that are actually shell edge!
A feather edge plate has a border that
resembles a feather.
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| Feather |
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| Feather Edge Plate |
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| Close-up of a feather edge |
A shell edge plate has a border that resembles the
ridges on a shell.
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| Shells |
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| Shell Edge plate |
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| Close-up of shell edge |
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| Shell Edge plate |
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| Close-up of shell edge |
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| Shell Edge plate |
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| Close-up of shell edge |
The next time you find a shell edge called a feather edge, please say something!
Oh dear - we got this wrong too. Thank you for putting us right!
ReplyDeleteDon Carpentier, Rob Hunter, and George Miller have been telling us the difference for years, but even some of the recent books have it wrong! The editors of the Transferware Collectors Club Pattern and Source Print Database (of which I am one) just made lots of corrections.
ReplyDeleteInteresting!
ReplyDeleteSomething new for me. Thank you Jean!
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