One of the strangest questions asked of me was at the Ceramic Fair in New York on a snowy January morning many years ago. A visitor to the event was inspecting my display of early British pottery. After a few minutes, he came over to the counter looked me straight in the eye and assertedly said, “I have a question for you sir, what kind of wood is wedge”? I was a little perplexed for a moment as everything at the Fair was ceramic. Then it slowly dawned that he had been looking at my written label associated with a creamware Jelly Core which read ” WEDGWOOD. ” It is not very often I am rendered speechless, but I could only give him a spluttering reply about the master English potter Josiah Wedgwood. Read more…