1. For a summary of English ceramic price history, see George L. Miller, “A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880,” Historical Archaeology 25, no. 1 (1991): 1–25. 2. For example, Ralph and James Clews had an agent in America who would purchase examples of their competitors’ wares that were selling well and ship them back to Staffordshire for the Clews brothers to have copied. In 1833, they wrote a letter asking their agent to send a plate of the latest Ridgway pattern if he thought it worth copying. This practice is described in George L. Miller, Ann Smart Martin, and Nancy S. Dickinson, “Changing Consumption Patterns: English Ceramics and the American Market from 1770 to 1840,” in Everyday Life in the Early Republic, edited by Catherine E. Hutchins (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, 1994), p. 232. 3. This soup plate was illustrated in the The Transfer Collector’s Club Bulletin (Spring 2000). 4. The New-York Historical Society, Record Group 1420, Ferguson & Day and Successors, Merchants in New York City, commission merchants, 1796–1849. Ca. 100 feet of documents. 1820–1825: Ogden, Day & Co.; 1825–1841: Ogden, Ferguson & Co.; 1825–1841: Jonathan Ogden. 5. Ellouise Baker Larson, American Historical Views on Staffordshire China (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1975), p. 58, lists the following mark on a Clews table service of the Landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden New York, August 1824 pattern: “j. greenfield’s / china store / no. 77 pearl street / new york.” 6. Rodney Hampson, “Pottery References in Staffordshire Advertiser 1795–1865,” Northern Ceramic Society Occasional Publication no. 4 (2000), 29, 66. 7. See Diana and J. Garrison Stradling, “American Queensware—The Louisville Experience, 1829–37,” in this issue of Ceramics in America.