Anchor (Stangl) Pottery Company, 940 New York Avenue, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ
Summary
Significance: The Anchor (Stangl) Pottery Company is a surviving example of a clay processing plant, involved in the making of flatware before the age of automation. At the time of documentation the jiggerman still made the pieces by using a forming tool to spread the clay evenly in the plaster molds. Belt run clay mixers and pug mills, as well as filter presses can still be found at Stangl.
Survey number: HAER NJ-26
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lacy, Israel
Location
Trenton (N.J.), 40.23860, -74.74420
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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