CrockerFarm.com Site specialized in auctioning American stoneware.
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Crocker Farm, Inc. Auction of Antique American Stoneware & Redware Pottery
Description
Crocker Farm, Inc. is a family business, owned and operated by Anthony and Barbara Zipp and their three sons, Brandt, Luke, and Mark. Anthony and Barbara began collecting and studying American stoneware in 1977, and began selling it in 1983. They have handled thousands and thousands of pieces of antique American stoneware and redware since that time.
Our auctions have seen some of the highest prices ever paid for American stoneware and redware. In addition to numerous outstanding highlights, the St. Johnsbury, VT cooler in our November 2006 auction realized $88,000, the highest price ever paid at a live stoneware specialty auction. Our May 2006 auction set a record as the highest grossing stoneware auction of all time.
World auction records held by us include:
• $71,500. World Auction Record for Pennsylvania stoneware. • $72,600. World Auction Record for Baltimore stoneware. • $41,800. World Auction Record for Bell family (Shenandoah Valley) pottery. • $23,100. World Auction Record for an Anna Pottery (Anna, Illinois) pig bottle.
We have also spent hundreds of hours conducting original research on American stoneware and redware potters in original, period sources, such as census records, city directories and newspapers. New information brought to light through our research includes ground-breaking revelations on Baltimore, MD stoneware and redware, the long-sought origin of "H. Myers" stoneware, important findings on the history of the prolific Remmey family of American potters, significant contributions to the study of Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC stoneware, new findings in the area of Shenandoah Valley pottery and Pennsylvania redware, notably that of Adams County, PA potter Ernestus Bacher and that of African-American Virginia potter Abraham Spencer. Exhaustive research conducted by us on James Miller, potter of Alexandria, Virginia, took the surviving examples of his work out of obscurity, increasing the value of these vessels by thousands and thousands of dollars. These are just a few of the important contributions we have made to the field of American utilitarian ceramics. Articles published by us include:
"Henry Remmey & Son, Late of New York: A Rediscovery of a Master Potter's Lost Years" by Luke Zipp, Available in Ceramics in America 2004
"Baltimore Stoneware" by Luke Zipp, Available in The Catalog of Antiques and Fine Art (Magazine), Summer 2006
"James Miller: Lost Potter of Alexandria, Virginia" by Brandt Zipp and Mark Zipp, Available in Ceramics in America 2004
External Links
- CrockerFarm.com: Crocker Farm Stoneware Auction
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