President James Garfield Pottery Bowl, Circa 1881-82

English Commemorative President James Garfield Pottery Bowl with an acrostic on the reverse comparing America's loss to Great Britain's loss of Prince Albert.

Maker: Whittingham, Ford & Riley, Burslem.

1881-82.

The bowl with a portrait of President Garfield, named below and with the American and British flags behind and an American Eagle above with some crazing to body.

On the reverse is an acrostic which reads as follows:

President Garfield.

Was Born November 19th 1831.

Elected President of America Nov 2nd 1880.

Shot by Guiteau July 2nd 1881.

Died September 19th 1881.

An Acrostic.

Garfield is Dead-His Memory blest.

Angels welcomed Him Home to Rest.

Radiant His Life-In Suffering Brave.

Friendship Now WeepsO'er A Martyr's Grave.

Intwined In a Bond of Sympathy Sweet.

England's and America's Widows Greet.

Like Albert-Was Garfield a Nation's Pride.

Devoutly They Lived. Beloved They Died.

(within an oak leaf garland.)

Mark: W F & R for Whittingham, Ford & Riley, Burslem, circa 1876-82.

Reference: See Collecting Political Americana by Edmund B. Sullivan, pages 92 & 93 where there is mention of a pitcher with the same decoration.

James Garfield was the Twentieth President, 1881. He was born on November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio. He died on September 19, 1881, in Elbberon, New Jersey after being shot July 2 in Washington D.C.

As the last of the "log cabin Presidents", James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period.

On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post shot the President. Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed.

On September 6, Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but on September 19, 1881, he died from an infection and internal haemorrhage.

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