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La Crosse – Brower and Vail Pottery

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Very little is known about this short-lived pottery. No pottery or sherds have been found. Alson Vail previously potted in Belin Wisconsin but we were unable to find much information about B. E. Brower. What we do know is the location of the pottery from a plat map of the city.

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Twin Grove Pottery

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In about 1850 Isaac Sanborn started an earthenware pottery in Twin Grove, a small village in the Jefferson Township of Green County about ten miles southeast of the city of Monroe...

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Milwaukee – Pierron Pottery Company

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Louis M. Pierron was born in 1853, the son of Catherine(a) and Louis Pierron. Shortly after the death of the elder Louis, Catherine married Charles Hermann and Louis M. became Hermann’s stepson. Indications are that the German-born craftsman Charles Hermann...

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Baraboo Pottery

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A pottery was operated in Baraboo from 1851 to 1857 by Philip Pointon and his son. Two earthenware pieces that initiated our research, a molded tobacco jar and a wheel turned cream pot with strong attributions in the collection of the Sauk County Historical Society...

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These pieces of a 3-gallon cream pot were found in a privy Portage in 2022. We attribute them to the Baraboo Pottery (1850 – 1857). They are the first Baraboo Pottery shards found since a truckload of shards were recovered from the pottery site in 2021. They resemble Whitewater pottery but have several distinguishing features. First, the rim is not prominent or sharply tooled like Whitewater cream pots. Secondly there are no documented examples of Whitewater with three incised lines. Three lines are typical of Baraboo cream pots. The manganese decoration is more translucent than Whitewater. The style of the “3” is distinctive. The fact that it appears on both Whitewater and Baraboo pottery is more evidence to support our hypothesis that an unidentified potter moved from the Fremont Street Pottery in Whitewater to Baraboo in the early 1850’s, bringing with him the decorative style of looping scroll below a flower

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British Hollow Pottery

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Ethan Griffith made pottery between 1850 and some time after 1880 in a small town near Potosi Wisconsin.

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This jug closely resembles another found in the Potosi area an is presumed to be from the British Hollow Pottery. It has a brown lead glaze, distinctive lip finish and finger press mark at the handle base, There is an incised line at the shoulder. It is not signed.
Unglazed ovoid jug attributed to the British Hollow Pottery. High-fired red/brown clay with a high sheen with flattened handle attached just below the flattened lip with a thumb press at the base. The surface is badly blistered and pocked in firing. Purchased in 1972 by the author from Bob Camaro who found together with the jar in Figure 3. Bob has seen about 18 similar pieces. 11 ¾”
Small jug was found in Viroqua which is 60 miles north of British Hollow. I has characteristics that resemble other pieces suspected to be from the British Hollow Pottery. It does not have a finger press at the base of the handle or the thin, dark glaze, but the form is similar, It could also be from another area pottery as well.
Unglazed ovoid food storage jar in a graceful form with flattened rim attributed to the British Hollow Pottery. High-fired red/ brown clay with a hard surface and high sheen. A “2” stamp on the rim resembles capacity stamps on Hammett pottery. This photo is of an old black and white picture of a piece in a collection of a dozen or more pieces found in the Potosi area. Its current whereabouts in not known.

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Kewaunee – John Klotz Pottery

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John Klotz is yet another immigrant potter who tried his luck at his old-world craft, only to find his skills obsolete in the land of opportunity. He was born in Bohemia, a border region between present-day Germany and the Czech Republic, in which some of the population spoke German while others spoke ...

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