Philadephia Redware Pie Plates
Redware Plate With Tulip Decoration
This group of 3 redware plates was found while investigating a crawl space of an early farm house on Hamilton Boulevard in South Plainfield, NJ about 1985 by Joe Butewicz, Kent Theurich and Joe Guth. I discovered and opened the small part, of long sealed off crawl space below, the old kitchen. The remainder of the basement was fully dug out and there were 4 or 5 bushel baskets there, full of early broken ceramic dishes mostly pearl ware, mocha ware, transfer ware, gaudy Dutch, other hand painted ware and porcelain export china.Each plate was found in about 3 or 4 pieces and two were missing quarter size triangles. Kent sold his plate to Joe within a year or two of the discovery and Joe had both plates repaired by Jim Evans of Haddonfield, NJ. I traded my plate to Joe about 5 years after the find for a very nice cobalt decorated, squatty, salt glazed jug. I Also had Jim restore my plate before I trade it away.