4. Ibid., p. 71.
5. Ibid., vol. I, p. 257.
6. William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1825), vol. II, p. 495.
7. Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia (London, 1738), vol. I, n.p.
8. As Figure 125 (p. 297) demonstrates, those Americans who did travel made sure they were remembered.
9. Frederick Marryat, A Diary in America, With Remarks on Its Institutions, S. W. Jackman, ed. (New York, 1964), p. 148.
10. Edward Hingston, The Genial Showman, Being Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward (London, 1870), vol. I, pp. 11–12.
FOUR: In Search of Bald Sextons
1. King John, III, 2.
2. Quoted by Ernest Morris, Tintinnabula (London, 1959), p. 126.
3. Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages over the Atlantic, in 1805 and 1806 (New Haven, Conn., 1820), vol. II, p. 92.
4. North Devon: The Buildings of England series (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1952), p. 85.
FIVE: Something for Nothing
1. Ivor Noël Hume, “Present from America—A New Addition to a Fine Bottle Collection,” The Wine and Spirit Trade Record (London), September 18, 1962, p. 1246; also The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 29, 1948.
2. Carl J. Clausen, “The Box—A Mystery on Its Way to Being Solved,” Archives & History News (Tallahassee, Fla.), vol. 2, no. 2, September-October, 1971, p. 3.
3. The Merchant of Venice, III, 1.
4. Homer L. Ferguson, Salvaging Revolutionary Relics from the York River (Newport News, Va., 1939), Mariners’ Museum Publication, no. 7, fig. 3.
5. John E. Price, Roman Antiquities Illustrated by Remains Recently Discovered on the Site of the National Safe Deposit Company’s Premises, Mansion House, London (London, 1873), pp. 78–79.
SIX: Billie and Charlie and Margaret North
1. Ronald Jessup, The Story of Archaeology in Britain (London, 1965), p. 147.
2. The Journal of John Gabriel Stedman 1744–1797, Stanbury Thompson, ed. (London, 1962), p. 364.
3. E. T. Hall, research laboratory head, Ashmolean Museum, to C. H. V. Sutherland, February 12, 1957.
4. Eric P. Newman, “First Documentary Evidence on the American Colonial Pewter 1/24th Real,” The Numismatist, July 1955, p. 3, quoting the Out-Letter Book of the Treasury, Tome 27/11, p. 424.
5. Frank Cundall, Historic Jamaica (London, 1915), pp. 78–79.
SEVEN: Of Mud, and Pots, and Puppy Dogs, and Mistakes that Come Back in the Night
1. George Payne, Collectania Cantiana (London, 1893), p. 74.
2. Ibid.
3. Thomas Wright, The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon (London, 1875), pp. 259–260.
4. Payne, op. cit., p. 79.
5. J. M. C. Toynbee and I. Noël Hume, “An Unusual Roman Sherd from the Upchurch Marshes,” Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. LXIX (Ashford, Kent, 1955), p. 74.
EIGHT: Adam and Eve to Caroline, with Intermediate Stops
1. Samuel Smiles, Josiah Wedgwood F.R.S., His Personal History (New York, 1895), p. 62.
2. Katharine Morrison McClinton, “Brass Tobacco Boxes,” Antiques, vol. L, no. 3 (September, 1946), p. 176.
3. Daily Mail (London), June 23, 1897, p. 4.
4. Henry Mayhew, Mayhew’s London, Being Selections from ‘London Labour and the London Poor,’ Peter Quennell, ed. (London, 1969), p. 182. Mayhew’s original work was first published in 1851.
5. Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia), July 19, 1733.
6. Gentleman’s Magazine (London), August, 1785, p. 603.
7. Ibid., p. 760.
8. John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions (London, 1849), Vol. II, p. 235. Brand’s manuscript was completed in 1795, and considerably revised when it was published under the editorship of Sir Henry Ellis in 1813.
9. Ray Fremmer, “Dishes in 18th Cent. Tombs,” The Weekend Star (Jamaica), May 12, 1972, p. 6.
NINE: History in a Green Bottle
1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Esquire F.R.S., Lord Braybrooke, ed. (London, 1902), p. 675.
2. Ibid., p. 735, entry for May 18, 1668.
3. The Scowrer, 1691.
4. The Recruiting Officer, V. 6.
5. E. G. Swem, ed., Brothers of the Spade (Barre, Mass., 1957), p. 47. From page 79 of the Custis Letter-book in the Library of Congress; Custis to Collinson, probably August 28, 1737.
6. Custis Letter-book p. 192; letter undated. Text from typescript in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society.
7. William and Mary Quarterly, 1st series, Vol. 7 (1898–99, reprinted New York, 1966), p. 152.
8. Quoted by Geoffrey Wills in English and Irish Glass (London, 1968), signature 10, p. 13.
9. From a promotional broadsheet published c. 1755–57.
10. Lord Tennyson, “Song of the Lotos-Eaters,” 1832.
TEN: “All the Best Rubbish Is Gone”
1. John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (London, 1681), Part I, lines 801–804.
2. Alexander Laing, ed., The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner (London, 1937), pp. 128–144. The original manuscript was edited by John Howell and published in Edinburgh.
3. Arthur Griffiths, The Chronicles of Newgate (London, 1884), p. 279.
4. Since this book was written, the Corporation of London has agreed to accept the return of the salvaged documents and to see that they are restored and preserved.
5. Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 1710.
6. Richard Steele, The Spectator, Henry Morley, ed. (London, 1888), p. 51; No. 30, Wednesday, April 4, 1711.
7. James Howard, The English Mounsieur (London, 1674), p. 45.
ELEVEN: A Word in Your Eye
1. James Mountague, ed., The Old Bailey Chronicle (London, 1788), Vol. I, p. 328; trial of Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, for burglary, October, 1724.
2. Ibid., p. 172; trial of Arthur Gray, for burglary, December, 1721.
3. Henry Mayhew, Mayhew’s London, Being Selections from ‘London Labour and the London Poor,’ Peter Quennell, ed. (London, 1969), pp. 199–200. Mayhew’s original work was first published in 1851.
4. Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (London, 1971), pp. 135–136; first published as three books, 1939–1943.
5. Ibid., p. 134.
6. As You Like It, II, 3.
7. John Ireland, Hogarth Illustrated (London 1791), Vol. I, p. 39.
8. The General Shop Book: Or The Tradesman’s Universal Director (London, 1753), n.p., article under “NEGRO’S, a kind of black slaves, which makes a considerable article in the modern commerce.”
9. Daily Sketch (London), March 4, 1961.
10. The General Shop Book, n.p. (see footnote 8).
11. J. Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English and American Home (London, 1964), p. 27, quoting from a 1755 pamphlet headed “Serious reflections attending the use of copper vessels.”
TWELVE: Of Mermaids, Fakes, and Other Grave Matters
1. Information provided by T. A. L. Concannon from manuscript notes, “Report on British Troops in Jamaica 1818–1823,” compiled by Lt. Col. M. E. S. Laws, Royal Artillery (Retd.), March 19, 1970.
2. Philip Wright, ed., Lady Nugent’s Journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 (Kingston, Jamaica, 1966), p. 98.
3. Ibid., p. 208.
4. A. H. Church, English Earthenware (London, 1905), p. xi.
5. Frank Hermann, The English as Collectors: A Documentary Chrestomathy (London, 1972), p. 47; quoting the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Advisory Council, “Reports of the Sub-Committees upon the Principal Deficiencies in the Collections,” 1913.
6. Ibid.
7. Church, op. cit., pp. xi-xii.
8. Essex County Standard, August 25, 1972.
THIRTEEN: And Then What?
1. Patent granted by Charles II to John Dwight (No. 164) for the manufacture of china and other war
e, 1671–84.
2. André L. Simon, Wine Trade Loan Exhibition of Drinking Vessels…&c., Vintners’ Hall (London, 1933), p. 29, no. 62B1.
3. Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon, Letters from Egypt 1862–1869, Gordon Waterfield, ed. (London, 1969), p. 157; letter of April 14, 1864.
4. Amelia B. Edwards, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (London, 1889), pp. 410–11.
Bibliography
The following short list of books is intended to provide the reader with points of departure or an opportunity to explore in greater depth some of the sources over which I have enthused. To provide a full bibliography for all the subjects touched on would require a volume on its own, and most of its entries would cite magazine articles, papers in hard-to-find scholarly journals, and long-out-of-print books wherein only a few pages are relevant. It is true that some of those listed below are no longer in print, but they are included because there are as yet no substitutes for them and because they are wholly pertinent.
CHAPTER ONE
Maurice Rheims, The Strange Life of Objects, Atheneum, New York, 1961.
CHAPTER TWO
Mea Allen, The Tradescants, Their Plants, Gardens and Museum 1570–1662, Michael Joseph, London, 1964.
CHAPTER THREE
Whitfield J. Bell, ed., A Cabinet of Curiosities, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1967.
CHAPTER FOUR
Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages over the Atlantic, in 1805 and 1806, 3 vols., New Haven, Conn., 1820.
CHAPTER FIVE
Ivor Noël Hume, Treasure in the Thames, Muller, London, 1956.
CHAPTER SIX
Ralph Merrifield, The Roman City of London, Benn, London, 1965.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Robert Charleston, Roman Pottery, Faber, London, 1955.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Geoffrey A. Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, Crown, New York, 1966.
John and Jennifer May, Commemorative Pottery 1780–1900, Heinemann, London, 1972.
P.D. Gordon Pugh, Naval Ceramics, Ceramic Book Co., Newport, England, 1971.
CHAPTER NINE
Ivor Noël Hume, A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America, Knopf, New York, 1970.
Cecil Munsey, The Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles, Hawthorn Books, New York, 1970.
Shelagh Ruggles-Brise, Sealed Bottles, Country Life, London, 1949.
Earl G. Swem, ed., Brothers of the Spade, Barre Gazette, Barre, Mass., 1957.
CHAPTER TEN
Alexander Laing, ed., The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, Cassell, London, 1937.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Peter Quennell, ed., Mayhew’s London, Spring Books, New York, 1969.
Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford, Oxford University Press, London, 1971.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Robert T. Clifton, Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1970.
Frank Herman, The English as Collectors: A Documentary Chrestomathy, Chatto and Windus, London, 1972.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
J. F. Blacker, The A.B.C. of English Salt-Glaze Stoneware from Dwight to Doulton, Stanley Paul, London, 1922.
Amelia B. Edwards, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, 2nd ed., Routledge, London, 1889.
Anthony Oliver, The Victorian Staffordshire Figure: A Guide for Collectors, Heinemann, London, 1971.
Francis Steegmuller, ed., Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston, 1973.
Gordon Waterfield, ed., Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon’s Letters from Egypt 1862–1869, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969.
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Academy of Armory, Randle Holme’s, 231
Adam and Eve on delftware, 11, 12, 165–66
Adams, Elizabeth: portrait of, 245
Adams, Mrs. John, 50
Adonis, death of: on Roman pottery, 138, 139
Advertisements, antique dealers’, 259–60
Akerman, Richard: jailer of New-gate Prison, 215
signature of, 217
“Akerman’s Hotel”: see Newgate Prison
Akhetaten, 300
Alchemist’s workshop, 241
Aldermanbury (London), bottles found in, 179, 181, 182
Alexandria, Virginia, 95, 153–54
Allen, Jeffreys: M.P. for Bridgewater, 161–63
election jug made for, 162
Allen, Mea, 29
All Souls College, Oxford: bottles from, 197, 198
Americana, collecting of, 44, 268
American Philosophical Society, 45
Amorous Club, Oxford, 222–23
Anemia, sickle-cell, 191
Anne, Queen: counter from reign of, 110, 111, 112
Antiquaries, Society of (London), 22, 23, 102–3
Antique dealer, murder of, 247
Antique, definition of, 51
Antiques as an investment, 51, 64, 193–94, 272–73, 283, 285
condition of, 272–74
source books for the study of, 228–38, 257–59
the new, 202
Antiquities, British in America, 122–24
Egyptian, 18–19, 31, 32, 296–302, 297–301
Roman, 11, 12, 14, 32, 37, 85–86, 87, 89–95, 92, 93, 95, 121, 127–41, 128, 129, 133, 135, 138, 140, 286
Apprentice Lists, 257
Arawak Indians, 264
Archaeology and collecting, xi, 1–4
Architecture, English village, 205–6
preservation of, 66, 210–11
West Indian, 204–5
Archivists, 212
Aretine, “posture woman,” 179, 180
Ark: see Tradescant’s Ark
Arlington, Virginia, Custis family home, 184, 190
Armor, 285
Army and Navy Stores (London), 229
Ashmole, Elias, 23, 26–32
his collection destroyed, 30
Aspley Hall, Nottinghamshire, 220
Astbury ware, 150, 151
Ascension Island, bottles from, 196, 197
Athenaeum, British literary weekly, 100, 102
Auctions: see Salesroom
Austin, Richard: Boston pewterer, 254
Australia, convicts sent to, 213–15, 216
Awls, 75, 76
Bailey, Nathaniel: his Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 41, 232
Baillie, George, 233–34
Ball, nun’s brass, 27
Ballast, Thames gravel, 122–23
Balsam, Turlington’s, 199, 200
Bapchild, Kent: jug from, 20
Barge, discovered in London, 91
Barbed wire, 268, 269
Barnes, discoveries at, 86
Barnum, P. T., 294
Basins, Victorian ceramic, 239–40
Bassert, Rebecca, 224
Bateman, Hester: silversmith, 142
Bath, plunge, 213
Battersea, shield from, 84
Beaumont, W. M.: collection of, 166
Bedlam: Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane (London), 58, 223–24
Bedlam, in America, 227, 228
Beer, bottled, 76, 77, 80
Beggar’s Opera, The: John Gay’s, 249
Bellarmine bottles, 244, 245, 246
Bells, animal, 61, 62
hand, 60
spring, 59–60, 62
terminology, 61
Bench, butcher’s, 206, 207
Bennett’s Point, Maryland: Roman coin from, 121
Bergami, Count Bartolomeo, 159
Billie and Charlie, 97–104, 101
Billingsgate Do
ck (London), 105, 112–13, 117, 119
map of, 117
Blackfriars’ Bridge (London), 123
Blair, James, 192
Blair, John: quoted, 190
Black Bess, 248
“Black Bottle” affair, 197
Blake, Joseph: pocket picker, 233
Bloomington, Indiana, 237
Bolt Head, Devonshire, 7
Bomb ships, 149
Books, 207, 209, 218, 219, 220–24, 228–37, 257–59, 267
destruction of, 207
Boscawen, Admiral Edward, 148
Bossewell, James, 231
Boston, Massachusetts, 254
Boswell, James: quoted, 215
Botany Bay, 213–14
Bottle collecting, 13–14, 82
collectors, damage by, 144
Bottles, glass: American, 200, 202
beer, 76, 77, 80
brandy, 246
brass mold for, 199
British “wine,” 15, 81–82, 174–188, 176, 177, 182, 185, 188, 195, 197, 198, 243
pharmaceutical, 199, 200, 201
contemporary illustrations of, 243, 245
Dutch, 83, 193–96, 194, 195
Kola, 202
olive oil, 198
patent medicines, 199, 200
pocket, 233
sale and value of, 51, 81–82, 193
seals on, 174–75, 176, 177, 179, 181, 182, 183–84, 185, 187, 188, 198
spirits, 76–77, 194, 196, 233, 246
wire for, 77, 79–80
Boudiccan Rebellion (A.D. 61), 54
Boulton, I: Virginia brazier, 253
Bourne’s Potteries, Derby: products of, 294
Bow, porcelain from, 166, 167, 168
Bowrey, Thomas: East India merchant, 79–80
Boxwood, Dutch, 187
Boyne, William: on tradesmen’s tokens, 117, 177
Brand, John: quoted, 170–71
Brakes, The: Kentish coastal shoal, 78–79
Brandy, 76–77, 246
Brass founding, 252–54
Brentford (England), 84
Bridgewater, Somersetshire, 162
British Archaeological Association, 100
Brothers’ Club, 222
Brothers of the Spade, correspondence of John Custis and Peter Collinson, 187
Brougham, Henry, 160, 161
Buckingham Palace, 238
Buckles, shoe, 148, 190, 236
Bucklersbury House (London), 91, 94
Burgess Rolls, 258
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