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Updated: May 23, 2025
They were probably made at the Worcester works England, you know; and I think many of them are quite as pretty as the Batterseas. You see it was at Worcester that they invented that variation of the transfer printing process that they called bat printing, where they used oil instead of ink, and gelatine instead of paper.
"I'm glad I did, too, for our trunks didn't come," she continued laughingly. "Still, if he isn't here to receive them There, Pete, aren't they beautiful?" she cried, carefully taking from their wrappings two exquisitely decorated porcelain discs mounted on two long spikes. "They're Batterseas the real article. I know enough for that; and they're finer than anything he's got. Won't he be pleased?"
"No," I answered; "I come for fun, though that is much the same thing." "I always come," he answered quietly, "to find Peggotty's boat. It isn't here." And when he said that I understood him perfectly. There are two Yarmouths; I daresay there are two hundred to the people who live there. I myself have never come to the end of the list of Batterseas.
Before another twenty-four hours had passed her quondam boarder, with a tired sigh, sank into his favorite morris chair in his old familiar rooms, and looked about him with contented eyes. Every treasure was in place, from the traditional four small stones of his babyhood days to the Batterseas Billy had just brought him. Pete, as of yore, was hovering near with a dust-cloth.
On the way down-stairs they stopped at William's rooms. "I want you to see a couple of Batterseas I got last week," cried the collector eagerly, as he led the way to the black velvet square. "They're fine and I think she looks like you," he finished, turning to Billy, and holding out one of the knobs, on which was a beautifully executed miniature of a young girl with dark, dreamy eyes.
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