Excerpt from The Valuable Receipts of the Late Mr. Thomas Lakin: With Proper and Necessary Directions for Their Preparation and Use in the Manufacture of Porcelain Earthenware, and Iron Stone China, Together With the Most Recent and Valuable Improvements in the Admired Art of Glass Staining and Painting
The important station which this art holds amongst our manufactures, renders every attempt at improvement worthy of consideration and attention. It has been said, the man who causes one ear of corn to grow where one never grew before, deserves the thanks of his country; but what does that man merit who, by indefatigable industry, contri butes materially to the advancement of the interests of his country, in-the improvement of its manufactures; it was in this class, that the late mr. Thomas lakin held a situationmuch above mediocrity, for, in Staffordshire, it is well known that few men have contributed more to the improvement Of an art so useful and so much admired.
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