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Printed and mostly manuscript document, 3 pp. + stampless address. With 2 attached pages of US export documents, one signed by Francis Ogden, US Consul at Liverpool, the other by Thomas Adams, “earthenware manufacturer”. 15½x9½.

Itemized lists, with costs of 100+ items of China being exported by the British Adams firm to George A. Ball of Philadelphia. The Adams firm, the subject of at least two books, was a major importer of China to the United States from the first years of the 19th century, notable for designs which were specifically “American” such as the Great Seal of the United States and the American Eagle. There were also American historical themes, some of which are detailed on this manuscript list, which mentions Printed Jugs with black-brown and purple Washington images. Other cryptic references (“Mothers Grave”, “American and Oriental Scenery”) would no doubt be of great interest and value to connoisseurs of early American “patriotic” pottery.