96 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY is stamped with the word, SELTERS, in a cartouche shown in Fig. 4- * The highest achievement in the production of a stoneware was the red-clay ware made by Elers Brothers, about 1700, at Burslem. They produced a smooth hard-baked ware of a dull red color, and on the polished surface they embossed delicate decorations beautifully designed, which were produced by brass dies, resulting in a clean cut and highly artistic vessel, which fetched the highest prices of the period, as much as five guineas being paid for a teapot of their manufacture. We had the good fortune to find several fragments of Elers ware in the camp debris at Inwood, one of which has the exact die-made flower impressed upon it that is illustrated in Solon's "Art of the Old English Potter," page 128. The process of die-embossing was taken up by other potters, notably by Wedgwood, and in fact is still used by them. Of such wares several specimens were found in the camps. A beautiful development of stoneware was produced by Josiah Wedgwood in his black "basalt ware," of which a- specimen was found in the debris of Lewis Morris's house at Morrisania, in the form of a bowl with fluted sides, around the rim of which are cameo j plaques, alternately depicting flowers and divinities. The "scratched blue" is a form of decoration which was applied to stoneware, a design being scratched, often rudely, in the clay, which was then filled with blue color and baked with a salt glaze, producing a clouded effect due to the spreading of the coloring material in the glaze. This blue coloring was produced by the use of oxide of cobalt and its origin is attributed to Aaron Wood. These wares are often found in the form of fragments of cups, saucers, or pitchers, sometimes very delicate in character, although the designs are simple, if not crude. Enoch Booth was one artist who produced this artistic ware, of which it is regrettable that the fragments have not afforded the means of reconstructing more than one or two vessels, one of which is a tiny teacup from the camp at 201st Street, shown in Fig. 5. Another larger specimen is numbered 24 in Fig. 1. It is a beautiful little bowl with the * This bottle is numbered 17 in Figure I.