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These are Fire-Red, a red refractory low plasticity clay mined in Manitoba, Canada. Red fireclay are not common. The top bar on each set is fired to cone 10R, the iron imparts deep color but the matrix is still fairly pours. The next one down in each set is fired to cone 10 oxidation. The third one down is cone 8, the red color is holding (it shifts to brown between around cone 9).
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