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(3)  Feb 3, 1907

[[printed]] Damfer Prinzess Alice

Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen  [[/printed]]

One point is positive.  They are the two earliest glazed potteries thus far exhumed in the world.  They are also the two most beautiful potteries thus far known in the world. 

Which is the earliest can only be definitely determined in the coming years, after the great cities and tombs of the valleys of the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates shall have been completely excavated.  When that time arrives I shall have been long forgotten and quite beyond an interest in 

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