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Two April 2013 Stoneware Lectures

By Brandt Zipp | March 16, 2013

Mark, Luke, and I will be giving a couple of stoneware lectures to be held next month: On Sunday, April 14, at 2:30pm, Luke and I will be giving a new talk, Excellent Ware: The Harrisburg Stoneware Potters and Their Contemporaries, at the Historical Society of Dauphin County in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Afterwards we will be [...]

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American Stoneware Lecture: REMMEY POTTERY, March 1, 2013, Sparks, MD

By Brandt Zipp | November 21, 2012

Remmey Pottery Lecture: March 1, 2013, Sparks, Maryland

We are very pleased to announce that our March 2, 2013 auction will feature the first in what we plan to be a series of lectures on American stoneware and redware! To be presented during the auction preview on Friday, March 1, we will be delivering our lecture entitled, Inferior to None: The Remmeys, First [...]

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Manhattan Stoneware Lecture: Oct. 13, 2012, Washington, CT

By Brandt Zipp | May 4, 2012

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Mark and I will be appearing at the Gunn Historical Museum in Washington, Connecticut, on Saturday, October 13, at 10 am to give a lecture on Manhattan Stoneware, 1795-1820, with a free appraisal event immediately following. This program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required to attend. [...]

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… And Some More Stoneware Videos

By Crocker Farm | January 10, 2012

We recently shot several more stoneware-related videos, and here are four of Mark discussing some rare examples. This is something we now plan to make a regular part of our website, and are really enjoying being able to add this kind of content to the internet. With that in mind, we have added a new [...]

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Some New Antique Stoneware Videos

By Crocker Farm | December 23, 2011

We shot and uploaded several new stoneware-related videos this week. We really enjoy talking about American stoneware and redware, and hope this is another good way to share that with you. Luke discusses David Parr, one of the most influential American stoneware potters, and one Luke has spent a ton of time researching. Not ten [...]

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Crocker Farm Meets YouTube

By Crocker Farm | October 18, 2011

For some time now, we’ve been talking about adding video content to our website, highlighting certain stoneware pieces or otherwise discussing stoneware and redware in a way that goes beyond the printed word. This is our first foray into what we hope will be a continuously growing library of videos intending to educate and expand [...]

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Crocker Farm Makes the Cover of This Month’s MAD

By Brandt Zipp | April 28, 2011

Crocker Farm on the cover of Maine Antique Digest (May 2011 issue).

I just wanted to draw everyone’s attention to this month’s issue of Maine Antique Digest, by far one of the most respected and widely-read publications on the subject of American antiques. We were honored to be heavily featured on the cover of that issue, along with Karl Pass’s story on our record-breaking March 5 auction [...]

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