Kelly Longrich's List: Social Studies K-8

• The term brings up before our eyes images of quaintly decorated teapots, jugs, pitchers, goblets, cups, saucers, shallow bowls like dessert dishes, and toddy sets. Of such pieces a goodly number were shipped to this country and subsequently handed down to us from our forefathers. Far example, George Washington's copper lustre shaving mug is still in existence.
• Old English lustre ware is of three general types--copper or brown, silver or platinum and purplish or gold
• Practically all of it that came to this country arrived here during the first 50 years of our independence. Indeed, English lustre passed through numerous stages of experiment and was scarcely perfected till the end of the eighteenth century. Copper was the first to be perfected

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