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Made from Ohio clay, hand-painted by Midwestern factory workers, and sold to the masses in variety stores, McCoy pottery is an undeniably all-American item. And it is precisely its prosaic nature that is driving an intense interest in collecting McCoy pottery today.
Millions of pieces of McCoy, from stoneware jugs and figural cookie jars to fruit-shaped wall pockets and floral-form vases, were made in the Roseville, Ohio, factory founded in 1910 by Nelson McCoy and his father, J.W. McCoy. Under various names, McCoy pottery was produced until 1990.
The most collectible McCoy pieces include kitchen bowls, large floor vases, unique old stoneware, flower forms, wall pockets, planters, pet dishes, and flowerpots. So common was McCoy pottery, and so good are the records, that McCoy is an extremely well-documented collectible, with item numbers and markings readily available in books or online. This thorough documentation actually generates endless collecting goals. For example, collectors can find out what shapes fruit wall pockets came in (apple, pear, orange, banana, grape) so they can know what pieces they need to complete their set. Or they can seek not just one of a particular vase, but one in each traditional pastel color: aqua, yellow, blue, white, coral, and sometimes lavender. The flower forms provide another set to collect: hyacinth, tall and low tulips, mums, single and triple lilies, large lily, magnolia, and poppy in pink, various shades of blue, and lavender.
McCoy cookie jars are highly desirable and a collecting phenomenon all their own. In peak production during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, the jars are known and loved for their shapes and decoration: tomatoes, tepees, ducks, puppies, cabooses, tulips, pineapples, Davy Crockett, clowns, elephants, kangaroos, spaceships, windmills, roosters, owls, turkeys, even kissing penguins.
Millions of pieces of McCoy, from stoneware jugs and figural cookie jars to fruit-shaped wall pockets and floral-form vases, were made in the Roseville, Ohio, factory founded in 1910 by Nelson McCoy and his father, J.W. McCoy. Under various names, McCoy pottery was produced until 1990.
The most collectible McCoy pieces include kitchen bowls, large floor vases, unique old stoneware, flower forms, wall pockets, planters, pet dishes, and flowerpots. So common was McCoy pottery, and so good are the records, that McCoy is an extremely well-documented collectible, with item numbers and markings readily available in books or online. This thorough documentation actually generates endless collecting goals. For example, collectors can find out what shapes fruit wall pockets came in (apple, pear, orange, banana, grape) so they can know what pieces they need to complete their set. Or they can seek not just one of a particular vase, but one in each traditional pastel color: aqua, yellow, blue, white, coral, and sometimes lavender. The flower forms provide another set to collect: hyacinth, tall and low tulips, mums, single and triple lilies, large lily, magnolia, and poppy in pink, various shades of blue, and lavender.
McCoy cookie jars are highly desirable and a collecting phenomenon all their own. In peak production during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, the jars are known and loved for their shapes and decoration: tomatoes, tepees, ducks, puppies, cabooses, tulips, pineapples, Davy Crockett, clowns, elephants, kangaroos, spaceships, windmills, roosters, owls, turkeys, even kissing penguins.
