That is how you know what it is. The recipe. The firing schedule. The pictures. The notes. Its project, information about what came before it and what developed from it. These mugs and that test bar are the same clay. I am doing a preliminary tests on a new material called "Battle Clay". This insight-live.com/glossary/302">code number identifies all my records regarding this test mix in my insight-live.com account. In future, I can identify the specimens from the records and the records from the code-numbered specimens.
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