Flat ware (1746)

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   OED and Merriam-Webster both have 1851 for "flatware."  Merriam-Webster gives a pointer to compare this to "hollowware," which it dates to 1682.  This should have been a clue that we're AT LEAST a century off here.
   Gosh, is this stuff bad.  That's why I do parking tickets for a living.



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September 25, 1746
The Pennsylvania Gazette

To be Sold by CALEB RANSTED, at his House next Door to the King's Arms in Front street, near the Bank Meeting. GOOD Bohea Tea by the chest or smaller quantity; sugar by the barrel or hundred; coffee by the hundred or dozen; pepper; alspice; cinnamon; Hungary water; almonds; raisins; indigo; stone blue; sweet oil; yellow paint; verdegrease; box irons and heaters; English steel; milk pots; decanters; cruits; salts; tumblers; beet; wine and dram glasses, all by the box or dozen; white stone tea ware; red ditto; frosted ditto; yellow, hollow and << flat ware>> , all by the creit; French white ware, and red ditto, by the dozen; snuff.


October 9, 1746  (SAME ITEM, DIFFERENT DATE?--ed.)
The Pennsylvania Gazette

To be Sold by CALEB RANSTED, at his House next Door to the King's Arms in Front street, near the Bank Meeting, GOOD Bohea Tea by the chest or smaller quantity; sugar by the barrel or hundred; coffee by the hundred or dozen; pepper; alspice; cinnamon; Hungary water; almonds; raisins, indigo, stone blue; sweet oil; yellow paint; verdegrease; box irons and heaters; English steel mill pecks; decanters; cruits; salts; tumblers; beer, wine and dram glasses, all by the box or dozen; white stone tea ware; red ditto; frosted ditto; yellow, hollow and << flat ware>> , all by the crait; French white ware, and red ditto, by the dozen, snuff.


November 8, 1750
The Pennsylvania Gazette

Imported in the snow Baldwin, from Liverpool, and to be sold by GREENWAY and RUNDLE, At the middle store, on Reese Meredith's Wharff, for ready money, AN assortment of 3 qr. 7 eights, and yard wide linnen and cotton checks, strip'd ditto, Irish ozenbrigs, 3 qr. and 7 eights Irish linnens, cambricks, lawns, sail canvas, No. 2, 3, 4, and 5; yarn and worsted hose, mens castor and felt hats, boys felt and laced castor hats, womens ruff ditto, with bugle bands, glass, delph, stone, dipp'd, flint, and yellow round and << flat ware>> , by the crate, grindstones from 13 to 30 inches diameter, and fine salt.


February 18, 1752
The Pennsylvania Gazette

Imported in the last vessels from Liverpool, and to be sold by
GEORGE OKILL, At his store, in Water street, a little above
Arch street, for ready money, or short credit, Scarlet, black,
and drab colourbroadcloths, kerseys, plains, half thicks,
rugs and blankets, scarlet, black, blue and drab colour
shaloons, pink and drab colourtammies, 6 qr. yd. wd. 7
eights and 3 q. cotton and linnen checks, yd. wd. and 7 eights
Irish linnen, men and boys felt hats, fine and coarse
cambricks, fine colourthread, fine English bed ticks, with
bolsters and pillows, men and womens worsted stockings, cotton
ginghams, buckrams, linnen handkerchiefs, silk and cotton
gowns, cotton ditto, corded demity, white jeans, fine cotton
counterpanes, holland tapes, white filleting and inkle,
worsted caddis and quality, nuns pretties, pewter, painted
snuff boxes, metal and gilt buttons, shoe buckles, buck and
seale hafted table knives and forks, clasp knives, penknives,
tea tongs and spoons, sleeve buttons, scissars, thimbles,
bohea tea in canisters and half chests, English cordage,
satinett, sewing and whipping twine, seine ditto, Hungary and
lavender water, delph, flint, stone, yellow and << flat ware>> ,
Chesire cheese, coarse salt, &c. &c. &c.



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June 11, 1767
The Pennsylvania Gazette


Wilmington, June 6, 1767.
WADE and HEMPHILL, At their NEW STORE, in Wilmington, New Castle County, take this Opportunity of informing their Customers, and the Country in general, THAT they have laid in a fresh, large, and neat Assortment of dry Goods, suitable for the Season; likewise Rum, Jamaica Spirits, Wine, Melasses, Muscovado, Lump and Loaf Sugars, coarse and fine Salt, Bohea and Green Tea, with a general Assortment of Groceries, Dye Stuffs, and Hard Ware, which they are determined to sell on the same Terms as usual, for Cash or Country Produce. (...)

N.B. FRANCIS WADE, in Philadelphia, has to sell as usual, on the lowest Terms, for Cash, a general Assortment of European Goods, suitable for the Season; likewise Bohea and Souchong Tea, by the Chest; Coffee and Pepper, by the Hundred or Dozen; a Parcel of Crates of yellow hollow and << flat Ware>> , and white Stone Ware.