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Ancient Egyptian pottery, the 1 finding of which pate back the known period of civilisation by 2,000 years, has been placed on view at London Univeralty Collego, Gower-street.
The pottery is included in an exhibition of now discoveries by Bir Flinders Petria and students;
the of
British Bohool of Archaeology in Egypt.
An amazing feature of the pottery exhibits le that, although | earliest in point of time, in beruty of workmanship they are tho finest evor dovinod in ancient Egypt.
Mado of a black clay and ap-i |parently glazed, the thia dolleato bowls and vasea boar a romark- ahlo similarity to the black house- hold ware now no fashionable,
"Thoy bolong to a poric d parlor than that hitherto known as prohistoric," Professor Sir, Flinders Petrio explained to a "Daily Chronicio” reprosentativo. “Bo for as can be judged, thoir date is about 10,000 years before Christ.
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"When they were made the| potter'e wheel was not know. J and they were turned out entire ly by the fingers and a sort of comb. Hero, you soo, we have a broken piece of one of the combs used.
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Lying on the floor, boneath a shelf upon which are flints from pre-pro-historie Egypt, in the body of a man. He died before: the art of mummifying was in- vanted, which means that the oldest mummy in the British i Museum ontored the world thou-awalow
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Saigon the Nile, for whom ancient Egypt its was still the far-distant future, | Shanghai » Europa via Jiberia possessed a hand exactly like that of the man of to-day.
Other exhibits include somo of the oldest bricks, probably, in the world. About 10,000 years old. they are made of Nile mud and wattle.
Among the flints is one which
The following local shipping and mail intelligence has been boars a rough resemblance to a corrected to noon to-day:
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buman figure. Rough scratches Swslow, Amoy & Zoochow have been made to represent a Mavils Inock and waist line--one of the
very earliest attempts at art,
Painted on the ceiling of the tomb of King Vah-ka-rn was found the pattern known as the 'Grook_koy," but it was designed about 2,500 yours hoforo Crook civilisation arose.
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Faked furniture abounds (do-hanghai claros Mr. H. W. Symonds in the tow & Haiphong curront number of English Life);| Shanghai it would hardly be as exagger- ation to say that more of it exists to-day than of genuine plecos For the past thirty or forty years it has been constantly made, jøver sincs, in fact, the collection
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"Aug. 20d. 11h. 28m-Pressure Mr. T. Gibbons, Jnr., Judge W. H. than they ever were bofore. A
increased considerably at Black, Mr. Chan Chin-fuon, Mr. Lim knowledge of design, quality, and bas patine is essential for the detect-Oshima and Naha and has do. Pun-fuk, Mr. Lim Chel-yan, Master ion of the spurious piece, and to creased slightly at Nagasaki, It Tung Kwong-foon, Mr. Kwok Boi- this knowledge should ho added has increased slightly at the an acquaintance with the work majority
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An area of relatively low prea the reproduction of the more sure lies over B.W. Obina. valuable piecus, as thego will
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
Forecast. Light, Formosa Chanuol variable
windn.
of other reporting tong, Mr. Kam Taing-ching, Mr. W. B. Pepys, Mr. and Mrs. Birkinshaw, Mine E. Livesny, Mr. and Mrs J. B Smith, Mr. Low Pong-wheo, Mr. Low)
Mr. Hongkong rainfall for the 24 Pong-hoo
Jamos, Mr. P. boat repay him. He will make hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, Collings, Mr. S. Mehtani, Mr. M. brand-now plecos out of old wood, 0.45 inch. Total since January Chutand, Mr. H. Nowman, Mr. M. preserving the matured surfaces ist, 79.76 inches, against an Carlson, Mr. Chon Chow-bong, Mr. of the latter wherever possiblo, svorage of 61.48 inches.
EL Cutting, Mr. HL J, Calkoen, Mr. and imitating tho signe of wear,
G. E. Banta, Mr. IL Marsden, Mr. the colour and surface Dondition
and Mrs W. Fald, Rev. and Mrs A. of the genuine old piece No
Blearh and a Children, Mr. C. James, closely that a collector who je.
Mr. N. Barber, Mr. J. G. D. not well versod may easily be
Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. L. Stevenson docsivod. An oven more dan.
and Children, Mr. A. T. Cook, gorous form of deception is the
Mr. W. R. Latham, Mrs. Latham, decoration of gonuiuo plain piecos
Mr. and
1. Mira.
Bitters, of carving by carving inlaying,
B. G Mr R Cooks, Mr. | or painting, thus increasing thofr
Baker, Mr. A. Meludos, Mr. and valus several hundrad por cont., and this class of fake is more
Mr. & Moore and Child, Mr. A. F. diffioult of detection, for so much
Ponsford, Mr. E Rowo, Mi A of_the_original surface of the
Hovey, Mr. and Mrs G. W. Glaze place is loft untouched.~
Miss Loador, Messrs B. F. Harris, E. C. Keeler, H. Etchells, G. Symone, J. J. D. Howell, G. F. Green, J. W. Sellar, Wiley, H. V. Morrell, Bondle, AR G. Molton, D. Wood,|| J. Irving, G. C., Wilding, W. Sullivan, 4. Jones, Miss D, Saunders, Mr. A McCallums, Do and Mrs F. Brown, It Comdr. H Newbold, Mrs. Now bold, Mr. Humble, Mr. Hyles, · Mr. Davidson, Mr. Bottom,
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