1950 McCoy Art Pottery Hunting Dog Planter

Description

This hard-to-find, large (a foot long!), McCoy art pottery planter features an English Setter holding a bird next to a … more This hard-to-find, large (a foot long!), McCoy art pottery planter features an English Setter holding a bird next to a "No Hunting' sign". Listed in McCoy Pottery book as made in 1950.

There are four openings around the dog, two at the front and two at the back. Originally designed for plants, but would be great with tea lights or used as a vase or…? Fabulous on your mantle, counter or shelving.

History

Lori Hanks, owner of Rare Bird Antiques, offers this brief history:
Around 1919, the Nelson McCoy Sanitary and Stoneware Company partners with eleven other stoneware companies to form the American Clay Products Company. As part of the agreement, all pottery American Clay Products produces will bear no trademark. The company lists all of the pottery pieces it produces in a catalog and marketed by one sales force. However, the demand for utilitarian stoneware is waning and in January 1926, ACPC liquidates.

With the liquidation, the pottery companies who were previously partners, are now directly competing with each other. They are now free to use their own marks on their pottery pieces and with the transition, these companies now face the task of re-establishing their own brands, including Nelson McCoy.

Nelson McCoy realizes he needs to alter his company’s production to reflect the changing times. By 1929, he changes the name of the company from Nelson McCoy Sanitary and Stoneware Company to Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company. A minor change in name by dropping the “and”, but a change nonetheless.

By 1933, the demand for food and sanitary wares is decreasing to the point another change is greatly needed and the company evolves once again and begins producing the decorative pieces the public wants. The company name changes once again to the Nelson McCoy Pottery Company.

The Nelson McCoy Pottery Company passes through generations of family and operated continuously until it is sold in 1967 to the Mt. Clements Pottery Company. less