American Potteries

By: Karen Bradsell

Abingdon Pottery began making art pottery in 1934. Raymond E. Bidwell established it in Abingdon, Illinois in 1908. It was originally called the
Abingdon Sanitary Manufacturing Company. The factory closed its doors in 1950.

Some of the cookie jars made by this pottery are: Brown Eyed Susan, Choo-Choo, Humpty Dumpty, Sitting on a Wall, Money Bag, 1947.

George Brush established his first pottery in 1907, but unfortunately, the pottery was destroyed by fire less than a year after it was started. He then
went to work for J.W. McCoy in 1909 and assumed many positions during his tenure at that firm. Brush-McCoy

Pottery Co. was started in1911. By 1925, the company changed names only to become The Brush Pottery. Cookie jar collectors are very fond of the figural jars made by this company.

A. E. Hull Pottery started in Crooksville~Zanesville, Ohio in 1905. The most famous cookie jar - Little Red Riding Hood - was patented by this company in
1943. Because of the continued success of this line of items they added figural kitchenware and novelty items. This pottery closed its doors in 1986.
Nelson McCoy was a third generation potter to work in the Ohio River valley. In 1940, his firm began to make the pottery lines that are so desirable and
collectible today. The cookie jars of which 200 hundred different ones were made are highly collectible and command top dollar for the most popular jars.

Regal China was the actual factory that painted The Little Red Riding Hood line. Hull shipped the whiteware to their factory and they shipped the
decorated pieces back to Hull for distribution.

Redwing Pottery started production in1878 in Red Wing, Minnesota. They also produced cookie jars. Some of the jars that command high prices are Carousel, Jack Frost, and King of Tarts; of which there are three variations. They closed their doors in 1967.

The Shawnee Pottery Co., another great American pottery firm, operated out of the Zanesville, Ohio region. They manufactured a very successful
line of whimsical cookie jars along with salt and pepper shakers, creamers and other dinnerware lines. Louise Bauer of Little Red Riding Hood fame designed a line of dinnerware called Valencia.

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This article focuses on American Potteries, makers of the best cookie jars in the world.

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