L C
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Hello Beebs, I just went through my Hull and McCoy books page by page, and did not find your planter in it. I did find a rabbit planter in the Hull book, but it was of a different shape than yours. Of course that doesn't mean that it isn't one or the other. I believe the piece you have was made somewhere in the forties, or could co back as far as the thirties, that is just my guess. I have seen allot of these types of planters over the years, and there were probably other companies that made planters such as these.
I am thinking now that yours is not a Hull or McCoy planter, but made by some other company. Usually the Hull or McCoy planters such as yours are usually done in a matte or semi-gloss finish.
I am not well versed on the history of McCoy, although I have bought, sold and collected it for a good number of years, but the Hull Pottery Company, I know, made many styles of pottery for department stores such as Sears and other years ago. That line of pottery that Hull made for other companies were called for example Coronet, Fiesta, Fantasy, and a few others. Any time it made pottery for other store chains, the name Hull was never put on the pottery. Yes, it is made by Hull, but made for another company or store bearing a different name. I am amused at times that there always will be someone who will argue that a piece of pottery is not Hull or McCoy, because it may not carry their name. If you plan to collect a certain pottery, it is good to buy a book showing the off brands of their products as well as the pieces of pottery that are marked with the Hull or McCoy mark.
A word of caution, learn your pottery well, there are many reproduction being flooded into the market today because some individual or company had managed to buy up some of the original molds. Its a real heart breaker to pay a good lump sum of money for a piece of pottery you think is authentic, and to find out later it is a fake. The people that are making pottery from the original mold are not marking it as fact simily to make you aware that it is not the real thing, it looks just the same as the ones that were made by McCoy, Hull, or Roseville. The only difference will be, the colors, and the pieces of pottery will usually be a bit smaller, because the materials used for making them will shrink a bit more than materials used when the originals were being made. You can not see that difference in size just by looking at a piece,
The market is flooded with fake Roseville, thankfully the colors are off enough that a person that has done their homework can recognize it as being fake as it is. I know in the beginning though, that there was many people who got ripped off big time buying it and not knowing there was reproductions out there in the market place.
There are reproduction McCoy cookie jars out there, saw a Woman give eighty dollars for a repo Aunt Jamima cookie jar one evening at an auction, after I had informed her it was a fake before the auction. She more or less told me to mind my own business, so I walked away and let here think she knew it all as she thought she did. I am sure she was a sick Puppy later when she realized what she had actually bought. I bought a repo piece as well once, doesn't matter whether you are a man or a woman, if you do not know what you are buying, you can get stuck mighty easy. Again, LEARN ABOUT WHAT YOU INTEND OT COLLECT.
I have even seen one piece of Rookwood that was a repop. I can not believe there is not laws in affect that says a company who reproduces a product has to put right into the material that it is a repop, or par say a fact simily of the original. Hopefully, the law makers will wake up and do something about it to prevent this from happening. I have some of the Hull we have collected on my website. Most of it I am thinking about selling, being we have not the room to display it properly. Hope the info above will help you some, Lou
http://www.freewebs.com/yesterdaystreasures/index.htm
< Message edited by L C -- 5/11/2007 7:27:03 PM >
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