Backstory: California Pottery? Not.
On a nice brisk saturday morning we made our way around the flea market as usual,looking for some nice vintage pottery.On this particular saturday we found this older gentlemen whose tent was filled with some McCoy,Roseville and other nice vintage pottery.I noticed he also had what i had done some careful research and had come to know as Cookson Pottery.As i picked up one of the pieces to inspect it,he said to my girlfriend and I "Yeah,thats some really nice California Pottery".It was then that i realized i had to school him a little bit on the origins of Cookson Pottery.In response,i replied "Actually,it's not California Pottery it comes from the Ohio River Valley it's Cookson Pottery".He looked shocked for one that someone as young looking as my girlriend and i would even know what we were talking about.I also gathered he might have been a little unnerved that someone would actually correct him,as some of these flea market guys like to really talk up their goods.At any rate,his prices on some of the pieces seemed reasonable,so we bought a few pieces and all ended well.
The History Of Cookson Pottery
Cookson Pottery was established in 1945 in Roseville Ohio and lasted until the early 90's.They made planters,vases and garden ware.What to look for: Cookson Pottery Markings
Cookson Pottery Marks are pretty easy to distinguish.If you look on the bottom of the piece you will generally notice a CP followed by a dash and a number followed by another dash and USA.It usually reads like this CP-738-USA.I haven't really done enough research to find out exactly what the numbers mean,however,i am guessing it has something to do with the size of the pottery or maybe the design type.
We always like to learn more about Pottery like Cookson and others,so if you have any information you'de like to add,please by all means leave a comment.
And as always we have an Etsy store,where you can find all sorts of Vintage items from Pyrex to Cookson Pottery and more.Have a look at our store.
found a nice green planter pot wide top but only says cookson on the bottom. it must predate the the CP number system?
ReplyDeletefirst thing on net calls it california pottery, thanks for the info!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. I just found a planter with CP and a number and saw a number of identifying it as California Pottery. I should have known though. Almost all of the California pottery I have seen has California or related name on the bottom.
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DeleteUsually the number is the month and year the piece was made. So, 746 would be July 1946 or 1280 would be December 1980 etc...
ReplyDeletewhat would CP-41 be?
ReplyDeleteor what about cp-9206?
ReplyDeleteCookson Pottery was founded by Irvin Cookson, son of Alfred Burl Cookson, Sr., who created it as a manufacturing business for his son and daughter-in-law, Gerald (pronounced with a hard "G") and Mary Alice Cookson. Irvin and his wife, Ethel Bash Cookson, owned a successful restaurant on Roseville's main street, and devoted their time to the restaurant's ongoing success. Production began in early 1945, and after the death of Gerald Cookson the management of the Pottery was taken over by his son, Ronald Cookson, husband of June Cookson. The last day of operation of Cookson Pottery was in May 1995. At this writing, Ronald Cookson is still living and resides near Zanesville, Ohio. My information about the Cookson Pottery is from the family: my maternal grandfather was Alfred Burl Cookson, Jr., half-brother of Irvin Cookson.
ReplyDeleteI have white round bowl CP USA 8137 any info?
ReplyDeleteI have a planter with cp 734 usa on bottom any info.?
ReplyDeleteI have a long planter in a mustard yellow and it has cookson spelled out with a little tale in the k .theres a divder and the second pannel reass. # 212 usa ..i haven't seen any of the descriptions mention cookson being spelled out ????
ReplyDeleteI have a grayish planter only markings are cookson 841, can you tell me anything about it, yr. made possible value
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