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1930--Teco Pottery closed.
Mar 09Henry Chapman Mercer died at Fonthill, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
1931--John Galen Howard died.
1932--The Batchelder Tile Company closed.1
--Louis Ipsen created the famous Bauer Pottery Ring-Ware.
May 07Maria Longworth Nichols, founder of Rookwood Pottery, died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1933--Ernest Albert Coxhead died in Berkeley, California.
--Dirk Van Erp died.
Jan 17Louis Comfort Tiffay died in his New York apartment of pneumonia.2
Feb 22Archibald Knox died of heart failure.
Mar 04Franklin Delano Roosevelt inaugurated President of the United States.3
1936Jan 20King George V died at Sandringham House, Norfolk. King Edward VIII ascended to the throne.3
Oct 07Irving J. Gill died in Carlsbad, California.4
Dec 11King Edward VIII adbicated. King George VI ascended to the throne.3
1939Sep 01German armies marched into Poland. World War II began.3
1 Batchelder Tilemaker, Robert W. Winter, 1999
2 The New York Times on the Web
3 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
4 Irving J. Gill, Architect, Bruce Kamerling, 1993