hiteness clays were obtained from Devon and then came in 1720 John Astbury’s important discovery of the use of flint. Whilst traveling to London on horseback — and he was proba- bly the first pottery drummer who ever started out from Staffordshire — he had occa- sion to seek the assistance of a… … trict shared, should give him a prominent position amongst the old Staffordshire i potters. Many writers credit this discovery to his son, but this is plainly an error. Astbury’s son Thomas, the only one of whom we have any information, had a busi- ness at Lane Delph in 1725, improved on his…
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