Collector’s Encyclopedia of McCoy Pottery

As early as 1806, Zanesville, Ohio, was the home of a redware potter who used the red surface clays of that area to produce household items needed by the settlers. By the mid-1800's vast stoneware clay beds were discovered, and the "Blue Bird" potteries became a way of life in the rural districts ... farmers, working between harvests, built crude kilns and produced stoneware crocks, jugs and jars from clay dug in their own fields .

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

FOREWORD

THE W. NELSON McCOY POTTERY

THE J. W. McCOY POTTERY COMPANY

THE NELSON McCOY SANITARY STONEWARECOMPANY

CURRENT VALUES

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