April 25, 2024
1940s 10"Vintage MISSISSIPPI Blue Caricature Picture Plate Vernon Kilns Pottery
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10"Vintage MISSISSIPPI Blue Caricature Picture Plate Vernon Kilns Pottery 1940s.Vernon Kilns California Pottery, 1940s.MISSISSIPPI "Caricature Picture Map" Collector's Plate.Approximately 10 1/2" DiameterVernon Kilns Ultra Rim Edge Form Blue on WhiteThis is a wonderful, vintage (1940s) Mississippi Picture Map collector's plate from Vernon Kilns California Pottery.Very, very brief background on Vernon Kilns. According to Bill Stern (2001), Vernon Kilns (Los Angeles) was one of the well known "Big Five" of the Southern California Pottery group (p. 42, California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism ). Vernon Kilns made plates featuring a wide variety of cities, states, sites, people, organizations, and events. Vernon Kilns closed its doors in the 1950s.The charming plate depicts a wide variety of Mississippi towns, cities, highways and other picturesque Mississippi scenes (please see photos), e.g., in random order:Mississippi Belle Mississippi River Traffic Mississippi River Bridge Old Capitol New Capitol Historic Enchantment Cypress Groves Confederate Memorials The back of the plate is inscribed under glaze with wording:Plate designed byVernon KilnsU.S.A.CONDITION: NO CHIPS, CRACKS OR CRAZING. PRE-OWNED, STILL IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.PLEASE CHECK OUT PHOTOS. THIS ITEM PICTURED IS THE ITEM YOU WILL RECEIVE, THIS PICTURE IS NOT FROM A
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