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Embossed blue edge decorated: a. Is similar to a design used by Ralph and James Clews, Enoch Wood, and possibly other English potters, ca. 1820s-1830s; b. Dot and leaf, ca. 1820s-1830s.
Even scalloped bud type shell-edge decorated: Impressed decoration with scalloped rim, ca. 1820s-1840s.
Unscalloped bud type shell-edge decorated: Impressed decoration with plain, not scalloped, rim, ca. 1840s-1850s.
Unscalloped type blue shell-edge decorated: Impressed decoration, ca. 1850s-1860s.
Unscalloped painted blue shell-edge decorated: Decoration is painted not impressed, ca. 1860s-1900.
Figure 2. Shell-edge decorated whitewarefound on nineteenth-century Mississippi sites.


Poverty Point (Indian Culture) Shell-edge Decorated Ceramics - Rufus Ward (03)
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