Homer Laughlin: Decades of Dinnerware, With Price Guide by Page, Bob: new 2003 LibraryMercantile
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Over its lifespan, it was produced in twelve different glazes. The original colors were mauve blue, yellow, spruce green and maroon. The maroon is unique, and officially referred to as red. In the 1940s, HLC added red, rose, turquoise and light green.
Browse the Harlequin Pottery Gallery » If you are looking for a special piece for your collection please Contact us to see what we have in stock. All our pottery is gauranteed to meet with your satisfaction. Please don't hesitate with any questions. Popular dinnerware shape lines include Eggshell, Fiesta, Harlequin, Rhythm, Riviera, and Virginia Rose. Some patterns such as Currier & Ives prints attract collector interest.
Riviera Vegetable Nappy Bowl
Fiestaware was reissued in 1986 and still being produced today. These pieces where in different colors from the original line of Fiestaware. Fiestaware cups had full circle handles until 1969, when partial circle handles were introduced.
Colors in this pattern are ivory, light green, yellow, red, and a medium blue referenced as mauve-blue. Fiestaware was introduced in 1936 by the Homer Laughlin China Company. Fiestaware was redesigned in 1969 and was withdrawn from the market in 1973.
Vintage Fiesta Tray: Relish Center
The firm made whiteware, an ironstone utilitarian ceramic form. The business continued at Homer Laughlin China Works. In 1889, William Edwin Wells joined the firm. In 1896, Laughlin and Wells incorporated the firm as the Homer Laughlin China Company.
Liz McIlvain assumed the presidency in 2012. Homer Laughlin also made hotel and restaurant china. The company has a contract with the U.S. military to supply china for use by troops at U.S. base camps. In 1870, Homer and Shakespeare Laughlin established Laughlin Pottery, consisting of two pottery kilns in East Liverpool, Ohio.
Vintage Harlequin Double Egg Cup in Original Rose Glaze »
Quick to join in the solid color mix and match tableware craze, America's great five and dime department store giant, F. W. Woolworth's contracted Homer Laughlin to design a line exclusively for them. The original release in late 1936, just in time for the holidays, consisted of 16 pieces in four new Homer Laughlin colors— Maroon, Spruce, Yellow , and Blue . The Harlequin line would enjoy great popularity and success and was sold at Woolworths for nearly 29 years. I don’t know how old your comment was, but I am trying to build my mother another collection of fiestaware. She had a good in started when I was young, but hard times forced her to sell it.
I have a 7 piece set of mixing bowls that are marked fiesta. The biggest bowl is green then orange, blue,ivory, yellow, ivory and then orange. Kitchen Kraft – Kitchen Kraft was an extension of the popular Fiesta line made by Homer Laughlin. It was advertised as Fiesta Kitchen Kraft when it was introduced in 1939. This line of bake and serve dinnerware was made in the original Fiesta colors of cobalt blue, light green, red, and yellow introduced in 1939.
Vintage Harlequin Individual Salad Bowl
The handles on cups and lids also have a triangular shape, which differs from Fiesta although both patterns were made in similar colors. Harlequin colors include chartreuse, forest green, gray, maroon, mauve glue, medium green, red, rose, spruce green, turquoise, and yellow. Seven different novelty animal figurines were also made as part of this line in 1939. Nesting bowls and regular plates will show the most wear and in truely excellent condition could see a price increase by 25%. Riviera – Actually a colorfully glazed version of the Century blank, this pattern was introduced in 1938 and made until the late 1940s. In comparison to other solid color patterns from Homer Laughlin, Riviera production was more limited.
I have some of the accessories that go with it as well. Can you give me an idea how to seel them, and or how much can I sell the set for. Homer Laughlin launched their Vintage Fiesta pottery line at the beginning of the 1936 and it proved an instant senstation.
Virginia Rose – The name Virginia Rose refers to a shape rather than a pattern. Many different decals decorated these elegantly shaped blanks, some of which featured roses and other flowers such as the Armand, Moss Rose, and Fluffy Rose patterns. These are sometimes, erroneously, referenced solely as Virginia Rose as if it were the pattern name.
From handmade pieces to vintage treasures ready to be loved again, Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. It’s also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. While many of the items on Etsy are handmade, you’ll also find craft supplies, digital items, and more. Homer Laughlin introduced tunnel kilns in 1924 at a newly constructed plant and also installed them in Plants #4 and #5, increasing the production speed. After a second plant was built in Newall in 1926, operations were consolidated in Newall and the East Liverpool, Ohio, plants closed. Joseph M. Wells, Sr., his son, replaced him as general manager.
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