What is Antique Iron Stone?

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Part of the video series: Antiques: Collecting Iron Stone

Summary: An antiques expert explains what iron stone is and its history in this free video series about antiques.

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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more

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What is Antique Iron Stone?

Today we're going to talk a little about iron stone I just want to give a overview about iron stone you'll find many pieces from the 19th century and the 18th century. This is very typical iron stone piece right here is just a blank white iron stone it comes in a you'll find it they use this type of iron stone in 19th century and we've talked a little bit about in different series. About iron stone the base for iron stone in flow blue they used a typical base like this it's a heavy weight iron stone. You'll see it in flow blue in what we showed you in mulberry which is an iron stone base like this a heavy piece. You'll see it in a light blue which we also showed you in the series and most of the transfer ware you'll find earlier in mid 19th century is a heavy weight like this. So this is what we're talking about here and I'm going to show you a number of different examples not necessarily this plain white iron stone but different iron stones that are English and American.

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