, and well worth the $20 you paid for it! 
They also hold on for dear life to their good glass pieces 'round these parts.
How the heck you find all this Rookwood?? I still am looking for my first peice...lol I bet that ashtray is worth a nice chunk...diggummup said:I picked up a sweet little art deco nude pin tray made by Rookwood and dated 1932. The lady said she got it from her mom and she thought it was old. I gladly paid $20.00 for it.
This is the first piece of Rookwood I found at an actual garage sale. Most of the good stuff has been found at estate sales or thrift stores in the past, but it's getting harder and harder to find good pottery at the thrift stores, and the estate sales have to be unknowing family members selling, which is one in a hundred lately too.creeper71 said:How the heck you find all this Rookwood?? I still am looking for my first peice...lol I bet that ashtray is worth a nice chunk...diggummup said:I picked up a sweet little art deco nude pin tray made by Rookwood and dated 1932. The lady said she got it from her mom and she thought it was old. I gladly paid $20.00 for it.
I haven't found any Rookwood anywhere.. that is since 1997 when I first starteddiggummup said:This is the first piece of Rookwood I found at an actual garage sale. Most of the good stuff has been found at estate sales or thrift stores in the past, but it's getting harder and harder to find good pottery at the thrift stores, and the estate sales have to be unknowing family members selling, which is one in a hundred lately too.creeper71 said:How the heck you find all this Rookwood?? I still am looking for my first peice...lol I bet that ashtray is worth a nice chunk...diggummup said:I picked up a sweet little art deco nude pin tray made by Rookwood and dated 1932. The lady said she got it from her mom and she thought it was old. I gladly paid $20.00 for it.
Rookwood os most easily identified by the backwards R and P logo, this was also joined with the Rookwood flame trademark impression. Between 1886 and 1900 a flame was added each year representing the date. In 1901 they stopped adding flames and started using Roman numbers under the logo. Pieces were also impressed with shape numbers (1-7301) and letters (A-F) that indicated the size. I do have a piece that has only the flames without the RP logo that dates to 1905. It was hand painted by Alice Willits and is worth a pretty penny. Here are some examples of the different Rookwood marks on pieces I have-jerseypicked said:
