For those of you who read my most recent research story published in the June 2021 issue of Maine Antique Digest, titled, The Red Earthenware Industry in Concord, New Hampshire - three pieces of good Concord pottery recently sold this month at C. Biddle Auction Gallery in Oakland Park, Florida and Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas.
The first piece was included in a lot of two, where the second object shown to the right was likely manufactured in northern New England in the early to mid 1800s. Although, the pitcher shown to the left matches objects owned by the Hopkinton, New Hampshire Historical Society and the New Hampshire Historical Society attributed to the Joseph Hazeltine Pottery in Concord about 1840. The lot sold for only $140 plus the auction premiums. The sale also included another good piece of northern New England red earthenware that was catalogued in a group lot as stoneware, which also sold for $140 plus the auction premiums.
The other two pieces of Concord red earthenware were an extremely rare pair of political mugs made for the 1876 presidential campaign, which were manufactured at the John Farmer Clark Pottery; this is the same Clark family who worked in Braintree, Massachusetts and Lyndeborough, New Hampshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Similar pieces are illustrated in the story I wrote for M.A.D. that are currently on display at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord. The pair sold for $1,000 plus the auction premiums. Interestingly, the sale at Heritage Auctions included some other pieces of political pottery, such as a bank related to William Henry Harrison (1773-1841).
Some Good Examples of Concord, New Hampshire Red Earthenware
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