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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe 1938 is the start date for Blue Ridge Pottery. But the full history goes back to 1916 in one form or another.
Southern Pottery closed in 1956, i believe. My mother and her sisters worked there from 1942 for 4 years.
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.
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.