[Mccoypottery-talk] My Find!!!

[BarbCrews]

That is really cool........
it is a great find and I would love to get a copy to if you sell them.



At 09:42 AM 11/16/03 -0500, you wrote:
>My mother had an older Depression Glass book (1990) that she was showing 
>me last night as we were visiting down in Kentucky.  I was looking through 
>it to see if there was anything that doesn't seem to be in my 
>books.  And.......
>Here was this little pamphlet stuck in the book.  I opened it and it is a 
>1920 sales brochure from Rookwood pottery!  Not only that but my Great 
>Grandmother had written a note on the back of it to my great aunt in 
>pencil.  It could be erased, but since this is NEVER going to go anywhere 
>until I die, I think it's really nice to have something that my great 
>grandmother wrote.  She was born in 1870 (+/-)!  My Great Aunt was an 
>artist in Cincinnati at that time and taught at the Cincinnati Art academy 
>so that's how it got to her.
>
>Anyway the pamphlet is around 10 pages on rag with a great Rookwood logo 
>lithograph on the front.  And in the back it has the marks that the 
>artists used up to that time.  Also the Rookwood marks used up until that 
>time and when they were used.
>I wonder if I should make copies and put them up as copies on eBay????
>Anyway, that was my "non" McCoy buy of the week so far.  We are going to 
>an auction this afternoon so I'll see what I find later today!
>
>Jennifer Smith
>Hull full of Ohio Pottery and Glassware
>Capriherb Farm
>Baltimore Ohio
><http://www.rubylane.com/shops/OhioPottery/>http://www.rubylane.com/shops/OhioPottery/
>GO BUCKS!!!!
>

Barbara Crews
A Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll World!
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