- Mercer Pottery Company
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The Mercer Pottery Company was started in 1868 by James Moses in Trenton, New Jersey and ran successfully until the 1930s. It claimed to have made the first semi-porcelain ware in the United States.[1][2] They operated four kilns and employed 120 people with an annual revenue of $150,000 per year.[3]
References
- ^ http://trentonhistory.org/Made/Marks.html
- ^ Barber, Edwin (1904) (Book). Marks of American Potters. Philadelphia, Patterson & White. p. 57. OCLC 39366448. http://books.google.com/books?id=KxckAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ "Trenton's Potteries" (PDF). The New York Times. March 29, 1873. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F02E4DB163DE43BBC4151DFB5668388669FDE.
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