Anyone here collect old pottery?

[pipsxlch]

Does anyone here collect old pottery? I ask because I have come into possession of a bunch that was buried in an old collapsed outbuilding. One from what I can find online may be something- doesn’t look like much, but it says the mark is Newcomb Pottery and they have a big market. Can’t find marks on many of the others, or what the marks mean. (so USA and a number may be a company called Shawnee, or one called McCoy? Is this right?) So how do you find out who/what the pieces are? I don’t even know the proper names for what some of them are- compote? Candy dish?
What is probably the best way to sell them? I’m hesitant on eBay because frankly since I’ve been sick I’ve been unable to work, and don’t have the money up front to send them while I wait a month for the sales money to be released. There are a few antiques shops in town, but they wouldn’t probably pay much.

[Natasha]

It depends on what kind of items they are, but you might want to check out replacements.com to get price info. They have a pretty decent search engine

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[twindragonsmum]

I’d try replacements.com and pintrest… Pintrest is great in that folks have already done the surfing and compiling photos and they usually have really good sources. Replacements has a great data base as well. Local antique shops may be able to help identify what you have. If you are looking to sell the items at the antique shops, know that the most they will pay you is half of book price – meaning, that if you have a piece that is listed in a collectors book, the antique dealer will purchase your item for half of what the book lists for a piece that is in superb condition and also based on how rare the item really is. Example – I collect Carnival Glass and Elegant Depression Glass; lids for candy dishes or sugar bowls or salt cellars, etc. will ALWAYS be listed at a premium price, because they are usually the part that gets dropped and broken, so more people are looking for a replacement for it. I have several lids with no matching bottom piece. The lids’ book price range anywhere from $50.00 to $100.00-ish depending on the lid. If I took my orphan lids and sold them to the nearest antique shop they would pay me $25.00 to $50.00 and would turn around and sell them for the book listed price of $50.00 to $100.00. Make sense?

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[pipsxlch]

Sorry I haven’t been able to be here. I did try posting a plate on ebay, figured I could front the postage on that until the money is released- IF it sells. Absolutely no nibbles lol even though I’m undercutting the other two I found.

I *think* this is a McCoy Pottery hanging pot/bowl from about ’45 in the Rustic pattern. It doesn’t have a legible mark on the bottom. From when this shed was abandoned though, things would be early to mid ’70s at the youngest. It’s hard finding stuff out, I went to an antiques shop in town but the woman there kind of looked down her nose at me and said I had nothing she’d charge me $100 to research them or buy the lot for $20, and I haven’t found a general collectors group online. Actually ebay itself has been my biggest help. I have more I haven’t even cleaned up yet, these seem the best.

This one is stamped McCoy, it’s a big cache or flower pot from I think the mid ’50s.

Another not entirely sure, it’s stamped ‘USA 2002’ but I think it’s yet another McCoy piece, this maybe from the Corinthian line from the late ’60s. The colors didn’t photograph well, this one is quite pretty. I noticed the antiques shop had a perfectly matching little planter- same stamp but the number was 2003, so maybe a mold number.

This is maybe the gem- and my friend said it was ugly and told me to take it or he’d just toss it. I researched the stamps, and it looks like it’s from Newcomb College Pottery from Louisiana, a famous women’s artist group from the late 1800s to mid 1900s. It has the mark of the potter (Kenneth Smith) and artist (Sadie Irving), and is the 48th of her possible 100 from the year 1932. I think this pattern is called moon in moss, or live oaks in moss, or something.

There’s a bunch of littler stuff, and some plates with handpainted fish on them that are so whimsical-some almost Seussical- that those I really want to keep

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