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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 13th, 1901.

Dear Mr. Moore:--

Your letter of the 9th instant, also the two tea bowls, came safely, all of which have had most careful attention.

The Oribe tea jar is so completely like one already in my collection that I should not care to purchase it.

The "Shidoro" is a very fine specimen, and similar to several already in my little group, but you will pardon me, I am sure, when I tell you that it is wrongly identified. If you will compare it with old specimens from Owari, you will find that it comes from that very prolific and wonderful Province. The only resemblance it bears to Shidoro is in the dull yellow tones mingled in its glaze, but these are not of the real Shidoro type. The silvery quality mentioned happens frequently in early Owari tea jars, but never in real Shidoro. Again, the clay in this specimen differs materially from the real Shidoro clay.

However, all this little preaching on my part is, perhaps, unnecessary, but it is so seldom I get a chance to have a friendly difference with you I cannot afford to lose a single instance.

To some one who is without such a fine specimen of early 

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