April 25, 2024
Vintage Homer Laughlin Fiestaware Rare 14 1/2" RED Platter/Chop Plate XL
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This is piece of Vintage Fiestaware from my parent’s estate.They purchased it when they were first married in the early forties. Since, early Fiestaware was hand done*, some pieces may have skip marks and sand pits in the glazing. However this is typical in manufacturing. Please, look at all the pictures carefully. The pictures are exclusively for the piece you are bidding on. The collection is in Excellent condition; No Cracks, No chips, and very few, if any utensil marks. · Vintage Fiesta plates were made upside down. The face of the plates, with its band of graduated concentric rings was formed in a plaster mold. Clay was pressed into the mold which was then rotated while a metal blade, referred to as "tool" shaped the bands of rings on the back side. The jigger tool would be manually lowered to carve into the clay, much like a woodworker on his lathe. This work was hand done at Homer Laughlin until the 40s when automatic jiggers were installed. Not all items switched to the automatic machines and there is a period of transition from the 40s into the 50s where hand jiggering is still seen causing an abundance of variation in the number of rings, their depth and precision. Much of the attraction found in vintage Fiesta pottery comes not just from the shapes, but from the colors and it is here, on the humble Fiesta plates where
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