Good Evening EVERYONE from THINGS FORGOTTEN!! We hope everyone is having a blessed and beautiful day!! Todays Picture Item Of The Day is of a beautiful Hull Pottery Set. This set is known as the Water Lily Hull Cornucopia and Vase. Hull pottery began production in 1905 in Crooksville, Ohio, under the leadership of Addis Emmet (A.E.) Hull (later succeeded by Ralph W. Hull). The Hull Pottery Companys early lines consisted of common utilitarian stoneware, semi-porcelain dinnerware and decorative tile. The company quickly established a firm market and enjoyed an excellent reputation for producing quality ceramics.On June 19, 1950, the plant was destroyed in a flood and resulting fire. Primarily because of Hulls excellent reputation with its customers and buyers, the company was able to quickly rebuild and re-opened on January 1, 1952 as The Hull Pottery Company. J.B. Hull became General Manager. Through the 1950s and 1960s the company continued to expand and diversify its product lines to coincide with the times. New artistic lines such as Ebb Tide, Tropicana, Continental, Parchment and Pine, and Tokay were introduced. In the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, the company changed its production from artistic lines to predominately House n Garden serving ware and Imperial florist ware. J.B. Hull died in 1978. Henry Sulens and, later, Larry Taylor succeed Hull as President of the company. In the mid-1980s the company was hit with multiple union strikes and foreign competition. In March, 1986 the company ceased operations and closed the plant.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:18:46 +0000
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