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Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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yer for a•L large out of -town concern does not earn hissalary by the 9weat of his brow, let us see whathappens to him when he visits the city on a purchas-ing tour. Immediately his arrival is known he is met,called on, phoned for, written to, aud besieged byevery one his firm has done business with in thelast twenty years. He is assured by ten different salesmen that tendifferent lines of dinnerware or cut glass are abso-lutely incomparable. He is begged, cajoled, threatened and bullieduntil he promises to drop in and look over Jones,Smiths and Browns goods. He finds that, even though in his appropriationhe has allowed a surplus for novelties, he is upagainst it in the way of reaching a conclusion abouthow he will spend the money. He has to recognize quality at a glance, and notpay a bonus for a name. If he is offered unusually long dating he becomesa Sherlock Holmes until he discovers the reason In short, he has to be on the job all the time,possess a cool head and sound judgment.
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METTLACH PLAQUE AT E. R. THIELERS. 27 ^Among tl)e potteries East anb \#est The demand for the white and East Liverpool gold treatments on American din- and vicinity. nerware is not nearly so extensive this season as that prevailing ayear ago, or even as late as last fall. This is caused,it is asserted, by the changable views of woman,Tr.is season decal treatments are the most indemand, and almost every pottery in the westerndistrict has made changes in the decorating shops totake care of new business on these lines. The dec-orating capacity of the Smith-Phillips China Co.,during the last week was increased twenty-five percent, the demand for the new decal patterns ontheir Princess dinner shape being the heaviest experienced in years. Additional workers have been added all around * » J. H. Miller, the well known pottery and glassjobber, of Huntington, W. Va., spent a few days inthe district last week, and he placed considerablebusiness both for immediate and future delivery. # * The P

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