pottery biography
Title: pottery biography
Category: Literature / English | Words: 295 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
pottery biography
The Robinson Ransbottom Pottery has been in
operation since 1900. Its founders had close ties
with the world famous art potteries of this early
era, the Weller and Roseville Potteries.
During the late 1890’s, Frank Ransbottom was one of
the area’s best known and most successful jobbers
of the stoneware and earthenware products made in
Roseville, Crooksville and Saltillo. The young Mr.
Ransbottom was born in 1872, started selling at an
early age and succeeded so …
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showed last 75 words of 295 total…their father, Alfred, a
pioneer in the Ohio pottery industry. Alfred had
been actively engaged in pottery making before
volunteering for service in he Union Army at the
outbreak of the Civil War. Following his discharge
in 1865, he operated the Bluebird Potteries on
farms in Perry and Muskingum Counties. One of
these was located just north of Roseville. It was
here that Alfred taught the age-old skills of
pottery making to each of his sons.
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