Roseville Pottery Is Specially At Doug's Antiques [ *■% Doug Stuart holds one his prize pieces of Roseville pot tery in front off a display. The teapot with the wooden look handles, center, is very popular in Roseville pottery. Overall view of the shop. LINDA WILLIAMS Bedford Co. Correspondent BEDFORD (Bedford Co.) Doug Stuart found historic Bed ford in the iate 1960’5. Its tree lined streets deemed it to be the perfect place for an antique shop. His own antique collection began 35 years previous to the 1988 purchase of his present store known as Doug’s Antiques. In front of his shop on sunny spring, summer, and fall after noons, you can-see Doug sitting in a lawn chair watching the traf fic or deeply involved in an an tique book. “I did not get into this business to get rich,” he said with a laugh. “But I enjoy having a reason to buy more stuff and I love meet ing people.” While he appreciates all types of antiques, his first love is color ful Roseville Pottery. The Roseville Pottery company was founded by George F. Young in 1892 in Janesville, Ohio, where rich clay deposits made it a natu ral to form. The first pieces were sold under the name of “Rozane” or “Rozane Ware.” These early pieces resemble the image most modem-day collectors associate with the Roseville look. Rozane Ware had highly gloss ed browns and blues, painted ani mals, Indians, nature scenes, and portraits. “I love my collection of Rose ville,” Doug says. “Sometimes it is difficult to part with a piece, but I know I have to in order to make room for more.” Roseville was first sold in dime stores and when sales dwindled during the Great Depression, many of the pieces were taken off the market. Some were kept in stock for six months and then re moved from the shelves. No one had extra pennies for decorative pieces. When the Depression Era passed, Roseville came back on the market and moved up in the world to department stores and finally to more exclusive shops. The last Roseville pottery was made in 1954. Doug’s shop collection in cludes a teapot with a wooden look handle, always an in de mand Roseville piece. Roseville made vases, teapots, plant stands, and lamps. The list of patterns and colors is endless. Other specialties in Doug’s shop include a display of Fies taware and dinnerware by Halls. Fiestaware, recently revived on the market, was bright and color ful and sold in dime stores. The brightly-colored dishes in blues, oranges, yellows, and greens make attractive displays in coun try kitchens. Today’s version of Fiestaware is pretty, but, accord ing to Doug, is not as colorful. “The vibrant hues just aren’t there,” he said. “Martha Stewart is a huge fan of Fiestaware,” he notes. “If you ever watch one of her shows you will see the cupboards in the background are full of these col orful dishes." Fiestaware pieces were given away as premiums by the Jewel Tea Company. Popular patterns include Red Poppy which was a premium at the A&P; Howard Johnson used a Halls’ Simple Original Fiestaware is bright and colorful. This antique cupboard is full of Halls’ dinnerware, which had often been given away as premiums. Simon motif. Halls’ had a wide them for $16.95. Today, the same array of patterns including tiny teapot sells for several hundred, flowers, red poppies, and even plain colors. A few pieces of fine Victorian In more recent years. Hall’s era antique furniture and a col was commissioned to make a tea- lection of Victorian prints by pot in a caricature shape of Presi- . dent Ronald Reagan for a Re- such art,sts as Curner and Ives ' publican Convention. For William Nutting, and Addison whatever reason, the order was p ox roun£ i ou t the merchandise cancelled leaving Hall s stuck . with 500 teapots. They put them m Doug s Shop located at 112 N. in their outlet store and sold Richard Street, Bedford.
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