I'm NOT a collector... YET!?! Was at a flea market and bought what looks like a crock for baked beans. It's glazed inside. Has a lid that's glazed on outside. Outside of crock is not glazed. Evidence of use on a gas burner... regularly placed blackish marks on bottom. TOTALLY dirty. Seller said stuff was from a house clean-out. Oh, and it only cost $1!
Has a tiny chip on lid that you only see if ya look for it. Same on crock itself... one tiny chip that's relatively hidden.
When I started cleaning it up, found an impressed mark on the side. Center of mark is hard to make out cuz on a curved surface. Could make-out Red Wing... then some like Brown-something ware, I think?? And the number 29... kinda off to the side.
Anyone know anything about this?
Posts: 3853 | Location: mount holly, NJ, USA | Registered: Sep 19, 2002
There is a lot of info on the net and books on collecting it. I don't know much about the different pieces and values, but I'd say you got a good deal!
I have a couple of pieces, they are both cassarole dishes (at least that is what I have used them for) with a large hollow cone shaped handle and lids with knobs on top. They are unglazed outside, like yours with the lids unglazed inside. The glaze is sort of a brick red?
Posts: 3395 | Location: Nebraska | Registered: Jun 08, 2003
Your description is just about what I have. Glaze sorta red-brown, inside dish and outside lid. This piece looks well used. I'll have to go hunting for info.
Posts: 3853 | Location: mount holly, NJ, USA | Registered: Sep 19, 2002
Mine are kind of charred looking on the bottom too? The unglazed exterior just weathered from use I guess. Not much one can do to clean it. I was once told by someone, the inside of the lids were left unglazed to allow you to wet them down/soak them, to keep moisture in while baking?
Posts: 3395 | Location: Nebraska | Registered: Jun 08, 2003
As I look at one of the impressions... maybe it says something like "providence" ware?? I'm convinced the black marks on the bottom HAVE to be from some kind of gas flame. Too regular to be from a campfire.
I just bought it cuz it was $1 and interesting looking. No cracks, glaze intact, and 2 TEENY chips that you really can't noice. Didn't see the name on it until I got it home and put on GLASSES!?!
Posts: 3853 | Location: mount holly, NJ, USA | Registered: Sep 19, 2002
Red Wing was founded in the town of Red Wing, Minnesota in 1878. It changed names as follows: Red Wing Stoneware Co. 1878 - 1906, Red Wing Union Stoneware Co. 1906 - 1936, and Red Wing Potteries, Inc., 1936 - 1967. Knowing this, and provided you can read the entire name on the mark, perhaps you can tell when it was made.
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