Horace Greeley's description of the Bennington display with flint ware insulators.

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Horace Greeley, in the New York Tribune, under an article called "Art and Industry at Crystal Palace" gave a long description of the Fenton or United States Pottery display. He said "around this monumental piece are grouped table and scale standards, Corinthian capitals, figures, vases, urns, toilet sets, and a great variety of other specimens of porcelain plain and inlaid." He also mentions telegraph insulators in white flint and says "This material is one of the best electro non-conductors that can be found and has been employed on the telegraphs in the vicinity of Boston."

Under the flint enamel ware he speaks of pitchers, candle-sticks, teapots, picture frames, doorplates, door and curtain knobs, and escutcheons. He described the Parian ware as remarkably fine, especially in the form of pitchers. They are light in material and graceful in outline and of two tints, one fawn-colored from the presence of a little oxide of iron, and the other, white, from its absence. These are made of the flint from Vermont and Massachusetts, the feldspar from New Hampshire, and the china-clay from Vermont and South Carolina. This Company has the credit of first producing Parian ware on this continent. Silliman and Goodrich's "New York Exhibition of 1853" published by George P. Putnam, also describe this ware.

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