Dating hull pottery

Hull Art Pottery

In the collecting world, the Hull Pottery Company is best known for its Little Red Riding Hood dinnerware collection of the s and its high-gloss art pottery of the s. Other popular items include its toiletry jars for Old Spice, vases, and baskets for the florist industry, piggy banks, and lamps. The Hull company has an interesting history and a slew of popular product lines. Find out more about the company, its unique identifying marks, and tips for spotting reproductions. Addis E. Hull Pottery Company. Like other early pottery companies , Hull got its start making utilitarian items such as stoneware, semi-porcelain dish sets, and decorative tiles among other useful household goods. Leading up to the s, the company branched out into art pottery using a wide selection of colors and glazes and expanded its business locations.

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Hull when he bought the Acme Pottery Company. His company had over people working for him. The A. Hull Pottery Company made art pottery, ceramic wares, novelties, stoneware and kitchenware.

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Identifying marks on Hull Pottery can at times be tricky, mainly because many of their wares are signed as simply USA, usually in embossed or raised large letters and occasionally labels stickers that can be lost. A pattern or series name and number are often also present, but in many cases, the best way to attribute an item made by Hull Pottery is to compare it with other similar examples that have been properly identified. To view a comprehensive list of Hull Pottery marks, please check out our marks4ceramics research service to help you in recognizing their marks and how they changed over the years, which in turn can indicate the age of your collection.

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Collecting Rookwood Pottery & Dating Rookwood Marks

The Hull Pottery Co. Hull Pottery Co. Starting with basic white stoneware, Hull gradually added semi-porcelain dinnerware, shifting most production away from bathrooms to artistic wares by the late s. Despite a series of rapid shifts in management and ownership and one huge fire in , the Hull Company succeeded by offering a limited number of pottery lines, generally simple in design, with sets of pastel glazes repeated from year to year, mainly in the Midwest. After the Depression, the company expanded and was successful in selling its pottery nationally.

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