RED WING POTTERY FLIGHT PATTERN DINNER PLATE EXC. CON

RED WING POTTERY FLIGHT PATTERN DINNER PLATE EXC. CON (image 1/1)
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RED WING POTTERY FLIGHT PATTERN DINNER PLATE EXC. CONDITION 10-1/4 INCHES DIAMETER FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL BERNIE AT WE HAVE A GREAT COLLECTION OF RED WING POTTERY AND OTHER COLLECTIBLES FOR SALE.RedWing Pottery production began in the mid 1860s. Skilled craftsmen-potters from Germany had settled in Red Wing, and using natural clay deposits, began producing pots. They produced ware for processing and storing food. They made crocks, jugs, and bowls, and other utilitarian items for use in the agrarian economy of the day. They produced salt glaze pottery, characterized by a clay body of grey or tan with a surface that felt like the surface of an orange (pocked), and decorated with a simple hand-done, cobalt blue decoration of a bird or flower. Red Wing was a grain town because of its location on the Mississippi River. As a result of the success of the grain industry, Red Wing was an ideal location for the pottery industry to grow. T was ready capital, a means of distribution with river barges and railroad, and skilled potters. These elements combined to cause Red Wing to have the largest pottery company in the United States in the early 1900s. The growth meant that they had to abandon the craftsman's way of production, w a skilled potter saw the piece through the whole production process. The Red Wing Potteries industrialized read more
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