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Your Price: $ 9.99
Item Number: 1963
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Manufacturer: Stangl Pottery
A neat find out of a home. This is a vintage piece of Stangl Pottery in their less often seen Kiddieware Line of children's dishes. It is a three part divided dish in the Mealtime Special pattern, pattern number 3829. This has the traditional Stangl red clay or redware base with a white background on the topside, onto which are hand painted 3 sections or cars from a train with a blue curlicue border design. The left section has the caboose, with a coal car in the center section and the locomotive steam engine in the right section, all riding on train tracks. There are also hand painted flowers below the train cars in each section, and the train engine car has a large yellow bell on top. It looks like the blue curlicues are meant to be steam coming out the top of the engine car.
This child dish piece is marked on the backside with the traditional Stangl Pottery oval mark stating "Stangl Pottery, Trenton, NJ", under which appears part of the product line name, the "Kiddie" and part of the "w" in Kiddieware. The pattern name, Mealtime Special, does not appear, but we know this is the pattern from some book and internet research.
According to some internet research and the book, Collector's Encyclopedia of Stangl Pottery by Robert C. Runge, Jr., Stangl Pottery manufactured pieces from 1929 to 1978. Stangl began producing Mealtime Special in 1950 for Frederick Lunning, and pieces bore his mark (not the Stangl) mark until 1953, when Stangl began producing this pattern under their mark. It was made by Stangl until 1974 on the red clay body (then made on the white body until 1975). So, this piece was made between 1953 and 1974, but we don't know when during that period.
This vintage child's dish measures 10 1/8 inches long x 6 1/4 inches wide, and sits about 1 1/8 inch in height. As with all Stangl pottery, it is a heavy piece, weighing about 16.5 ounces or just over 1 pound unpacked.
We've provided 8 images to show from varied angles and close-ups. Please note that the camera lighting causes white "hot spot" reflections on the high gloss surface (you can see how these vary across the painted areas as you look across the images). Please use the zoom feature to examine closely.
This old piece has condition issues which likely happened with age/use/storage over time. We've tried to highlight some of these in the images, so please review carefully. In the center section along the top rim there are 3 low flat surface chip/wear spots with surrounding brown staining. There are additional low chip/wear spots at the top of the right engine section, with more brown staining there. There are a number of other rim chips around the outer edge of the rest of the piece, as well as on the divided ridges. On the left divided ridge the white base was not applied evenly as made, and you can see the red clay base coming through as a line here (this area did receive the top glaze and is smooth). There are many pin/pit dot/tiny spot flaws in the pottery topside surface, with some scratches (but not badly scratched). On the backside along the top rim is a large (9/16 inch diameter) chip which you can see/feel along the outer rim. The brown coloring is uneven on the backside, with lighter coloring in some areas and uneven top glazing and/or surface wear, with a small double wear/low chip spot on one lower spot on which the dish sits.
While definitely not mint, this piece could still be a nice fill-in item for a Stangl Pottery collection or one related to children's dishes or train dishes in general, Usually an expensive Stangl piece to find, we've priced this in accordance with its condition. |
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