Pottery trade flourished. So the City with a mayor in the head decided, that pottery fair will be first Thursday in March, but nobody wanted to wait for leap year, so it will be every year. The town square was filled with the merchandise, potters, buyers and onlookers. Beer pitchers, mugs and jugs were very popular. Potters made them in majolica, glazed, enameled, decorative, and with all kind of flowery patterns. The pitchers decorated with beer foam around a neck, with the picture of a beer wave and a surfer on the top were clearly number one.
Decorated plates, soup plates, saucers and bowls with circles; big peripheral circles, then smaller and smaller, and just little in the middle were success. The producers of cups and mugs didn't want to stay behind and came up with the name mugs: forget-me-not pattern for Jane, little roses for Mary, and daffodils for Hedvika. Of course, all mug potters were making faces: "The name mugs, it's nothing new. We sell them for long time. "Yes, but not in clay."
The manufactures of chamber pots and potties decorated them with peonies and a slogan: "Our potty will snug around your butt." "We carry pots and potties of all sizes."
And there were decorative potters of wall plates: our dishes into each family, and a good cook uses only our eartenware.
The bowls favored a pretzel pattern. Yellow pretzels circled the bowl and there was one bigger pretzel with two smily eyes on the bottom. Dogs and cat bowls were decorated with tasty bones and yummy mice. Canary dish had a seed pattern. The large bowls to make batter and dough carried a bread, bun, scone, cake, tart, or pie pattern. Flowerpots were on sale in rectangular or oblong shape: Our flowerpots will save space on your windowsill.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, January 2011
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