The Things We Look At

A couple years ago we bought a fairly large collection from someone that had been employed in the one of the pottery factories.  The pieces are diverse in nature and most are not marked.  As a new collector years ago we may not have purchased such a collection because few of the pieces are marked with a stamp from the pottery but we recognized the unique features of the pieces and had seen many of them in photos or heard about them from other collectors.

Here is a list of pottery plants:

Medalta Potteries Factory:
1912-1914: Medicine Hat Pottery Company Limited
1915-1924: Medalta Stoneware Limited
1924-1954: Medlata Potteries Limited
1958:          New Medalta Ceramics
1960-1966: Sunburst Ceramics Limited

Clark's Factory
1916-1922: Gas City Pottery Limited
1922-1924: Canada Pottery

Alberta Potteries Factory:
1931-1936: Alberta Potteries Limited (Jesse W. Wyatt)
1936-1938: Albert Potteries Limited (Perry and Matuska)
1939:          Provincial Industrial Enterprises or P.I.E.
1941-1966: Alberta Potteries Limited (J. Harlan Yuill)
1966-1986 Medalta Potteries (1966) Limited

Medicine Hat Potteries' Factory:
1939-1955: Medicine Hat Potteries
1955-1989: Hycroft China Limited

All photos are from our collection.  The Spaniels are from a different person's whose husband worked at the factory.  The texture of the clay is quite different from the clay used by the other potteries but the spaniels were made in Medicine Hat, one of them was a gift from her husband when he worked in one of the plants.

I hope everyone has a wish list ready for Santa and that he manages to find that elusive piece of pottery that you have been looking.  Merry Christmas to all and good wishes 2020!

And the Search Continues.........