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Your Price: $ 7.50
Item Number: 1413
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Manufacturer: Adams Potteries
Nifty antique or vintage souvenir china piece for My Old Kentucky Home in Bardstown, Kentucky (Kent.), showing the Georgian-style mansion or home at this locale. This house is famous as being the location at which Stephen Collins Foster in 1852 (while visiting his cousins, the Rowan family) wrote the famous song, My Old Kentucky Home, which is the official state song of Ky. The locale is now a Kentucky State Park site. The plate has blue and white coloring in the traditional "flow blue" type blue color (the images may make the coloring seem darker due to camera lighting, but this is a traditional rich medium blue color within the range of blue seen with Flow Blue/Flo Blue plates). Fully marked on the backside as having been made by Adams Potteries for Jonroth (an importer of souvenir pieces) in Staffordshire England, and marked as having been imported specifically for My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, KY. From the style and markings, we believe this piece to date to the 1900s teens through 1930s period, although no manufacturer date appears on the piece.
Round plate measuring about 6 7/8 inches in diameter and sitting about 5/8 inch in height. Frontside center picture shows the mansion with trees near it. Above the home to the right is an oval inset line image drawing of Stephen Foster with his signature printed in script, under which his full name is shown, "Stephen Collins Foster". All this is surrounded by a floral motif near the plate edge. At the bottom center appear two lines of words "My Old Kentucky Home, Where Stephen Collins Foster Wrote the Immortal Song". On the backside appears the music notes for the first line of the song with the words underneath, "The Sun Shines Bright in My Old Ken-tuck-y Home". Below this there is a a curve "Old English Staffordshire Ware" within which appears the insignia with crown for "Jonroth England. Under this are the words "Made in Staffordshire, England. By the Adams Potteries. Estd 1657, Imported Exclusively for My Old Kentucky Home. Bardstown, Kentucky." There are light smeared blue diagonal lines from the manufacturer printing process through these words. We've provided 8 images to show different views and close-ups including close-ups of the graphics, location wording and the manufacturer markings. Please note that the white "hot spots" are reflections from the camera lighting on the high gloss surface.
This piece is in very nice condition for it's age, but it's not mint. The plate appears to have never been used and perhaps was just displayed on a shelf, as we see no surface scratches. There is some crazing visible on the topside and underside of the plate. There are pin/pit dots in the glazing. The main flaw is a chip on the underside of the plate near/touching the rim. You don't see this from the topside, but the chip touches the rim on the bottomside. This is an oval chip measuring about 1/4 inch greatest width with about 1/8 inch of the chip along the underside rim. There is depth to the chip, it is not just a slight surface chip on the backside. Looking at the front of the plate on display you would not know it is there and the plate looks terrific, but you need to know that this is there.
A great addition to any collection of vintage souvenir memorabilia related to Kentucky in general, the city of Bardstown, My Old Kentucky Home, or a collection related to Kentucky State Parks, local history or tourist attractions. Would also make a great gift for someone interested in music, popular or traditional songs, or composers in general, or Stephen Foster in specific. Would be a nice piece for adding to a general collection of antique Jonroth China or Adams China pieces. |
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