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* ■ Quackery Is Senior Tit/tic OCEAN VIEW The Dennis Township Senior Citizens Club will have a slide show. "Arthritis ljuackery". at its meeting 1 p m Wednesday. Nov 6. at k the Ocean View F'ire Mall Also, the club will elect '£ officers for the new year.

SOCttL^ SECURITY Vital, Current Information For Senior Citizens! The Cape May County Herald. Lower Township Lantern and Cape May 1 Herald Dispatch have been asked by the local Social Security Administration to print a special supplement to our newspapers. This special section will be published on Wednesday, October 30. 1985. It It will contain the latest changes in social security regulations as well as local information of vital interest to senior citizens. The Herald. Lantern, and Dispatch have the largest combined circulation of any other newspaper in Cape May County - 24,119 average year round. The papers are extremely popular amongst our older citizens who represent 27% of the county's population This would be an excellent opportunity to reach all of our readers with your advertising message; Advertising in the social security section will be sold at a special rate to encourage widespread community support. TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS IMPORTANT SUPPLEMENT, CALL TODAY 465-5055 1

Antiques gy Arthur H. Schwerdl

My friend (also an antique dealer) and I. on meeting recently for the first time since June, looked at each other, pointed, and said simultaneously.

"Got any 'Flow-Blue'?" Both of us agreed that there seemed to be a convention of Flow-Blue collectors visiting Cape May County this summer Who would have known it? Actually Flow-Blue is one of those perenially collectible patterns. Every year a dealer gets one or two people asking for it, and every few-or-so years (like locusts) the voracious hordes of collectors descend. IN THOSE years it seems that every person who comes into your shop, whether they admit it or not, is looking for that particular collectible. Majolica, another type of china, is also collected this way. There are people who collect china by the name of the company, e.q.. Wedgewood. Spode. Lenox. Flow-Blue and Majolica are not companies, but specific types of china. They became so popular when they were made that just about every company making china came out with a line of either or both of these at one time or another. FLOW-BLUE (or Flown or Flowing-Blue) was first made in Staffordshire. England, in 1825 Usually made with an ironstone base, it is a heavy china sometimes marked "Pearl Stone," "Stone China." or "Ironstone" underneath. It is characterized by paintings of oriental scenes in a sort of blurry blue color. The scenes are painted with a chemical (Cobalt oxide) and when the piece is exposed to the heat of the kiln, the color runs (or flows ) through the open pores of the stoneware, giving the picture its blurry appearance. THE VALUE of a piece i of Flow-Blue is determined by the depth of the color and the way it spreads Scenes usually include: temples, pagodas, rocks, water, willow trees, flowering trees, sailing boats, and trellis steps These appear in various combinations with pattern names like: Formosa. Chapoo. Manila. Formosa. Corean. Kin

Shaw, and many more. . depending on the company 1 The same technique (but I a different chemical) was used to create a FlowBrown which never became as popular A couple of companies also came out with non-oriental patterns. usually Gothic scenes of ruined castles and English gardens or bordered with grape vines and grape clusters. "MAJOLICA" is a 19th Century English term for a 16th Century French-style lead porcelain which was then (in the 19th Century) finally being made in England after once only being available from Italy, where it was at one time imported to from Spain, where it had been exported from Valencia, having been made first on the Island of Majorca (pronounced "my-orca"). It's like a huge game of "Buzz", isn't it? And the name is only the beginning of the fun. CABBAGE LEAF plat ters, cauliflower bowls, pineapple tea pots — these are just some of the whimsical designs and shapes, and all in brilliantly realistic colors. Majolica was not made just for the kitchen, either. There were also candlesticks that looked like corn ears, vases shaped like trees, and lamps shaped like vines. Majolica was popularly collected during Victorian times in England In America, toward the turn of the century, majolica pieces were given away as advertising premiums. THESE PIECES were made as close by as Trenton. One of the most popular and most often reproduced majolica designs was the "Toby Jug," the figure of a man with pipe and beer mug whose tricomer hat was either a lid for the jug or an opening for a cup. NEXT WEEK we will cap off our discussion of porcelain with another installment of the "Design Dictionary this time devoted to terms used in reference to pottery and other ceramics. (Arthur Schwerdl, coowner of The August Farm house, on Route 9 in Swainton. invites questions c/o this newspaper )

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