1. Neil Ewins, “Supplying the Present Wants of our Yankee Cousins: Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775–1880,” Journal of Ceramic History 15 (1997): 60–71. 2. G. W. Rhead and F. A. Rhead, Staffordshire Pots and Potters (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906), pp. 313–14. 3. G. A. Godden, Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1991), p. 294. 4. Cartographic sources show the area in which the sherds were discovered as open waste ground between 1900 and, at the very latest, 1912, at which point the modern street was laid down. The Johnson Brothers material must have been dumped here during this twelve-year period.