Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Tiles: A Catalog of Handmade Tiles. This is the most comprehensive of the Batchelder catalogs: 116 pages, over 60 of figure tile designs, mantels and numerous installations. Includes a detailed price list covering every piece of tile made by the company. Fourth Edition, 1923. Price: $28 with color.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Tiles: A Catalog of Mantel Designs. From the introduction: The fireplace is a permanent, built-in feature of a room[and] remains either as a source of perennial satisfaction or as a constant challenge to ones sense of appropriateness. This catalog includes nearly 100 pages illustrating specific fireplace and mantel designs including frontal, side and top views complete with exact measurements. Third Edition, 1927. Price: $20.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Pavers: A Catalog of Tiles and Pavement Designs. Here are 44 pages filled with numerous examples of floor patterns, Batchelder figure tiles, and colorful photos of some floor patterns with figure tiles. This catalog is published to show not only color plates which present accurate reproductions made direct from the material itself, but to offer suggestions for the use of the designer. Next to the choice of color, the pattern of a floor is important, the choice of scale in a unit to be used, the width and character of the border. Second Edition, 1927. Price: $45 with color.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Tiles: Patina Glazes. This is a hand-pressed tile, full glazed, high fired, free from excessive gloss. It has a texture akin to the patina of old marble or bronzehence the namePatina Glaze. Through illustrations and photos of bathroom floors and walls, this catalog shows off the distinctive Batchelder bath environment, complete with a full assortment of ceramic accessories and some figure tiles that do not appear in earlier catalogs. 16 pages. 1929. Price: $24 with color.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Tiles: A Catalog of Designs for Fountains. From the introduction: History, romance and legend combine to make the fountain a spot of interest In the possession of a fountain, however modest it may be, there is real enjoyment and companionship. Here are 40 pages illustrating both free-standing and wall-mounted fountain designs. Detailed measurements included. Second Edition, 1924. Price: $10.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). "Batchelder Tiles: Fountains," published in 1930, is the company's final presentation of fountain- related products prior to its closing in 1932. Within its 20 pages are numerous fountain heads (including the elusive 6" x 9" Spout) and bowls as well as many illustrated wall mounts and free-standing floor models. Note the page of "Practical Suggestions" regarding the installation of these fountains. The 4-page Price List is dated November 30, 1930. New in '06. Price: $12 with color.
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Batchelder-Wilson (Los Angeles, CA). Batchelder Drinking Fountains: A Catalog of Designs in Tile and Terra Cotta. From the introduction: A Drinking Fountain may be much more than an object of mere utility. Here are some rarely seen examples of Batchelder's architectural terra cotta, high-relief wall mounts and free-standing fonts, from the simple to the ornate in design. Some are photographed; others are illustrated. Detailed measurements and a price list are included. 22 pages. First Edition, 1928. New in '06. Price: $10.
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Calco Tile (South Gate, CA). The scrolls and manuscripts of the early civilizations have come to us torn and fadedthe ceramics and mosaics of the ancients have come to us in unfaded beautya powerful testimony to the everlasting qualities of tile. Here are 47 pages with numerous tile designs, trim shapes, mantels, fountains and installations of the Calco Tile Manufacturing Corporation. Circa 1930. Price: $20 with color.
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California Art Tile Company (Richmond, CA). Manufacturers of high fired faience and floor tile. This 71-page catalog is filled with illustrations of decorative tile designs plus numerous fireplace mantels and other installations. Our high fired tile has qualities not possessed by ordinary tile, as by our methods an extremely hard enamel is produced. Circa 1930. Newly upgraded in '06. Price: $30.
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Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Co. (Covington, KY). Manufacturers of Enamel and Art Tiles for Fire Places, Wainscoting and Stoves. This 33-page catalog features decorative tiles in various sizes including the portrait tiles and panels designed by modelers Ferdinand Mersman and Clement Barnhorn over a century ago. Equally impressive are the two dozen ornate fireplace surrounds, among the finest produced in the United States at that time. Circa 1900. New in '09. Price: $15.
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Cambridge-Wheatley Co. (Covington, KY). Catalog A: Keramic Tiles. From the company organized to market the products of the Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Co. and the Wheatley Tile and Pottery Co., this catalog of 93 pages is loaded with tile products of every description: hundreds of individual decoratives, inserts, borders, plaques, panels, grilles, mantels, fountains, the works. 1928. Price: $20.
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Ceramic Trade Directory of the White Ware Industries, published by The Ceramics Publishing Co., Newark, NJ, is a comprehensive listing (with some full page ads) of all U.S. companies manufacturing with clay in 1929. Includes name, address, product description, capacity, officers. 168 pages. Price: $25.
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Claycraft Potteries (Los Angeles, CA). Claycraft Mantel Designs. Here are 48 full-page mantel illustrations with accompanying hearths, profiles, and lists of the tiles needed for each. There are a number of tile designs that do not appear in other catalogs as this was the companys last publication. Circa 1935. Price: $15.
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Claycraft Potteries (Los Angeles, CA). Tiles. This 56-page catalog is a compilation of six different Claycraft catalogs published during the 1920s and includes a full spectrum of tile designs, mantels, grilles, trim shapes, even bookends. Also a 4-page, undated price list is attached. Price: $15.
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Color Cement Handicraft by Pedro J. Lemos is a fully illustrated, 200-page booklet on how to make cement tiles from scratch. The step-by-step approach covers the making of molds, the use of color, design and decorating techniques. Price: $35.
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Decorative Arts Inc. (Hawthorne, CA). Here are color copies of Dec-Art Tiles, most copyrighted in 1928, a series of life-size tile design decals in full color. Sizes include 1/2 x 6, 2 x 6, 3 x 6, 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 1/4 x 4 1/4, 6 x 6, and 8 x 8, 116 designs in all. (Not a catalog per se but color sheets.) Price: $90 in color.
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Enfield Pottery & Tile Works (Enfield, PA). Floor and Wall Tiles. According to the introduction: Enfield was the first to dig up and adapt the motives of what is commonly called Aztec or Mayan, as is evidenced in the Pan-American Union (now OAS) in Washington, D.C. Find hundreds of decorative tile designs and floor patterns, trim and molding shapes, within this catalogs 65 pages. 1928. Price: $15.
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Flint Faience Tile Company (Flint, MI). Plastic Hand-made Tiles. Here are fountains, mantels, murals, panels, plaques and hundreds of individual decorative tiles, border designs, and trim shapes for walls and floors. Catalog G from 1926. 38 pages. Price $15.
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