Thanks for supporting Blue Ridge Pottery! There is such a long history that it would take numerous videos to cover it all. It is an amazing story, and much can be learned at the museum in Erwin, TN.
That's definitely a missed opportunity. The ladies of the region were the heroes of Blue Ridge Pottery. I have a vendor in my store whose grandmother was a painter. It was really a sustaining income in a time of slim picking employment.
Recently I went to a local auction here in New England and they had someone lifelong collection of Blue Ridge. They sold it in lots of twenty to twenty-five pieces averaging $35.00 a lot! I don't think people knew what it was and the auction has no presence on the internet.
Thanks for supporting Blue Ridge Pottery! There is such a long history that it would take numerous videos to cover it all. It is an amazing story, and much can be learned at the museum in Erwin, TN.
Southern Pottery closed in 1956, i believe. My mother and her sisters worked there from 1942 for 4 years.
I believe 1938 is the start date for Blue Ridge Pottery. But the full history goes back to 1916 in one form or another.
I wish you had talked about the local women of the community painting these patterns?
That's definitely a missed opportunity. The ladies of the region were the heroes of Blue Ridge Pottery. I have a vendor in my store whose grandmother was a painter. It was really a sustaining income in a time of slim picking employment.
@@BackPorchAntiques The ladies were definitely talented women. I met one lady several years ago when I visited the festival.
Recently I went to a local auction here in New England and they had someone lifelong collection of Blue Ridge. They sold it in lots of twenty to twenty-five pieces averaging $35.00 a lot! I don't think people knew what it was and the auction has no presence on the internet.