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Table 2. Cost of table plate in pence.
	1796	1814	1833	1846	1855
Willow	6.5	4.0	2.25	4.0	2.0'
Transfer printed	6.5	5.0	3.0	4.0	2.0
Edged	2.0	2.0	1.5	2.0	1.5
C.C.	1.5	1.5	1.17	1.41	1.25
during the 1820s (Miller 1980). The low price of edge decorated ceramics indicates that they were used at the lower end of the economic scale or as "every day dishes."
A major problem with the development of an edge decorated chronology is the confusion over the names and descriptions of the various styles. The most common error is referring to "shell-edge" as "feather edge." Feather edge is an embossed and usually uncolored design around the rims of mostly salt glaze or creamware plates (Figure 4), popular from the 1760s to the 1780s (Noel Hume 1969). Feather edge and shell-edge were considered two different patterns. In 1774 Wedgwood listed the names of the borders of plates on which Guy Green was applying transfer prints. (Green with John Sadler had developed transfer printing in 1752.) In his list of borders Wedgwood listed feather edge and blue and green shell-edge as separate patterns (Moore 1903).
The confusion over the proper name of shell-edge, which has mistakenly been called feather edge by some archaeologists or Leeds by some antique dealers, is mild compared to the confusion of the different names given the substyles of shell-edge. In attempting to make some sense out
plates from the 1760s through the 1780s (Noel Hume 1969). These decorations were usually uncolored.