Description:Lantern slide of a pottery worker known as a placer.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"Placing. Before firing ware is place in rough earthenware containers called saggars, filled in with powdered flint. A cover is added and made air tight with clay."