Collecting Pottery 101

One of the best collectibles for those of us who love brightly colored dish ware is pottery collections. It takes a while to educate you of the variety and type of pottery available. It can be a very expensive hobby if you collect hard to find or antique pottery. It can be an inexpensive hobby if you collect more general types of pottery. Pottery collections do grow in value over time and in the mean time you have a way to decorate your home and really express your personal taste.

They are a number of quality and historically renowned brands of pottery. Among these brands are, Frankoma, Hull, McCoy, and Bennington Potters. Most of them have fairly interesting tales of how their brands became famous.

Frankoma Pottery was started in 1933 and lasted until 2004. The fact that they no longer produce pottery makes their pottery very collectible. Pieces made in the 21^st century can still be collected a very reasonable price. Frankoma is best known for the green glaze that it has on its most collectible pieces and recently it has become a sought after type of collectible pottery.

Hull Pottery is another well known company to serious pottery collectors. It started as a small stoneware company and grew into a large pottery manufacturer. It most collectible ware is the Little Red Riding Hood cookie jar.

McCoy is an old pottery company that has produced a large number of collectible pieces over its eighty year history. It is still a very successful American pottery company. Roseville pottery is a very old American company as well. It was started in 1890 and it pottery pieces are one of the most popular lines of pottery for people to collect still today.

David Gil created a popular pottery company in the mid sixties that still produces a number of practical basic tradtional stoneware to stylish contemporary collectible pottery pieces. Other types of pottery produced by multiple companies such as specific kinds of blue ware and polish pottery are also very collectible.

Polish Pottery is all hand manufactured pottery that is decorated with various colorful and unique stamps. Polish pottery includes complete dinnerware sets, serving pieces, bake ware, and even tea and coffee serving sets. You can also collect specific pieces such as vases and cookie jars.

Polish pottery is the creation of rural polish artists who took inspiration from the popularity of the peacock feather a poplar Victorian decoration. Some farmers raised or raise peacocks for a meat source. Cobalt blue and earth shades are the underlying colors of this wonderful pottery. New designs have been developed over the years and passed down by means of stencils to a new generation of artist potters.

Best part of polish pottery is you can use it. They make excellent casseroles and baking dishes that can go from oven to table. All real Polish pottery is fired in the town of Boleslawiec only a couple of hours from Dresden Germany. Look to make sure your 'polish' pottery is marked from the town of Boleslawiec to authentic. There are several sites where you can purchase polish pottery on line for a reasonable price.

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