USA MARK ON POTTERY - MONMOUTH/WESTERN STONEWARE

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Many pieces of pottery in the 1940's-1950's were marked with only a USA on the bottom. These pieces were made by potteries such as McCoy, Hull, Shawnee, Brush, Robinson Ransbottom, Camark, Cronin China and the one I will discuss today, Monmouth Pottery/Western Stoneware. Monmouth Pottery was absorbed by Western Stoneware in 1906, but, there were still wares through it's history that carried the Monmouth Pottery name. Some of these pieces have a USA mark in a rectangle. This mark is not very well documented and most people who try to sell pieces with this mark do not realize that it was made by Western Stoneware.

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Hopelake said…
We just bought a small (4 1/2 in. by 3 in deep) green bowl, with the rectangle USA mark, and vertical molding up to three progressively wider horizontal rings. It has natural clay on the outer rim of bottom with the glaze on the center bottom like McCoy. However, we read here that the rectangle USA meant it was Western/Monmouth Stoneware not McCoy
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:56:00 AM
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:01:00 AM
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