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A guide through the Royal Porcelain Works (1895)

Royal Porcelain Works (Worcester, England) · Worcester : The Works · leaf 26

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BISCUIT KILN AND PLACING HOUSE. 24 in the model accordingly, the design being fashioned so much larger than is actually required ; the shrinkage from the original model to the finished object being sometimes equal to 25 per cent. The ware up to this point in all the stages of manufacture we have… … BISCUIT KILN AND PLACING HOUSE. The manufactured objects being now ready for baking are taken to the placing house of the biscuit oven, where may be seen some hundreds of seggars, of all shapes and sizes. These seggars which are made of fire-clay and are very strong, are the cases in which the ware…

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