USA MARK ON POTTERY - MONMOUTH/WESTERN STONEWARE
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.