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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 7475168, member: 50"]I guess yes, I have shared. I have a lot of old ceramics, many are 18th C. It started with my interest in ceramics and led to an interest in archaeology where the two meld. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have done presentations, both to the public and to people learning about archaeology, showing from my pieces what whole objects look like compared to the sherds people find. I want people to be able to handle things because there is no way to better understand what you have in your hand. It's part of why I started collecting, to be able to touch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have offered pieces for study also, for example, when archaeology researchers at Mount Vernon were doing a study of 18th C punch and punchbowls, the museum wouldn't allow them to borrow pieces for volume measure. So I brought some of my 18th C punchbowls and they measured size and volume.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 7475168, member: 50"]I guess yes, I have shared. I have a lot of old ceramics, many are 18th C. It started with my interest in ceramics and led to an interest in archaeology where the two meld. I have done presentations, both to the public and to people learning about archaeology, showing from my pieces what whole objects look like compared to the sherds people find. I want people to be able to handle things because there is no way to better understand what you have in your hand. It's part of why I started collecting, to be able to touch. I have offered pieces for study also, for example, when archaeology researchers at Mount Vernon were doing a study of 18th C punch and punchbowls, the museum wouldn't allow them to borrow pieces for volume measure. So I brought some of my 18th C punchbowls and they measured size and volume.[/QUOTE]
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