Hall China Marks
Hall created teapots to match with their dinnerware patterns and designed novelty teapots.
Hall china marks. Some marks look like a circle square bird or animal shape etc. Please keep in mind that these are the general marks. A short year later he died. Hall s superior quality kitchenware and superior hall quality dinnerware identify those items respectively.
Founded in 1903 the hall china company began with three brick kilns 38 potters and robert hall s dream of producing chinaware through the superior single fire process. They are made of a heavy stoneware type body with a brownish gray color. It was this single fire process which ensures a more durable lead free product that helped establish hall china as the market leader. If the mark is a plain circle with the word hall in the middle your teapot dates from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Marks are incised or cut into the wet clay impressed with a tool into the wet clay or stamped with a machine and ink on dry clay. Hall pottery and china company your place to buy and sell all things handmade an ivory casserole with shiny gold dots from the 1940s 1950s 8 1 2 diameter at rim about 3 1 2 tall without the lid. The management of the business was taken over by his son who was also named robert. Browse our great selection of hall dinnerware and dining collections.
The word hall s within a circle marks most items the company made except kitchenware and dinnerware. A brief history. This is the most common mark found on collectible hall china today. About this site.
Fine tune the date of your teapot by researching the shape of your teapot. These plates were shipped england where they were hand decorated by denby and then shipped back to the united states. Marks may also be created in the mold and these are the most permanent. Shipping every day on orders 99 free standard u s.
Each piece is marked with the hall in a rectangle backstamp along with the denby name. Marks with letters are listed in alphabetical order. Shipping on orders 99 1 800 replace 1 800 737 5223 menu. The plates below were made by hall china in the early 1980s.
Identify a mark by shape. Paper labels are the least permanent marks and many companies used a paper label and another method for marking wares. Skip to main content. The hall china company was started by robert hall in 1903 in east liverpool ohio.
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