By Anne Gilbert So you’ve just discovered a small pottery vase not only signed “Rookwood,” but with an artist’s signature at a garage sale! And, for this great discovery you paid $90. A lot of money at a garage sale but couldn’t it be worth thousands? Once home you excitedly grab your Handy-Dandy Price Guide. Sure enough the artist and […]
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Circassian Girl, Grandmother Lizzie
Submitted by Carol Mobley Elizabeth Metz (Lizzie) was born in Manhattan, NY on December 5, 1861 — a beautiful girl whose life...
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Van Briggle — Colorado’s Connection to Rookwood
By Ann Brandt Artus Van Briggle lived only 35 years, but he left behind an artistic legacy. Van Briggle has been called a genius,...
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Novice
By Peggy DeStefano Chubby mother earth Has more rolls Than I know what to do I decide to crisscross her body And with a determined...
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What Is It? January 2019
January 15, 2019Send your answers to the What Is It contest, postmarked by January 20, to the Mountain States -
What Is It? December 2018
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November 9, 2018We had one correct guess for our November What Is It. Jerome McLaren of Conifer, Colorado
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Quality and Designer Determine Prices for Rookwood Pottery
By Anne Gilbert So you’ve just discovered a small pottery vase not only signed “Rookwood,” but with an artist’s signature at a garage sale! And, for this great discovery you paid $90. A lot of money at a garage sale but couldn’t it be worth thousands? Once home you excitedly grab your Handy-Dandy Price Guide. Sure enough the artist and […]
Circassian Girl, Grandmother Lizzie
Submitted by Carol Mobley Elizabeth Metz (Lizzie) was born in Manhattan, NY on December 5, 1861 — a beautiful girl whose life was as colorful as her red hair. There is little known of Lizzie’s childhood but by the time she was 19 she was married to Ambrose Hadley, a Civil War veteran 20 years her senior. They traveled together […]
Van Briggle — Colorado’s Connection to Rookwood
By Ann Brandt Artus Van Briggle lived only 35 years, but he left behind an artistic legacy. Van Briggle has been called a genius, an artist and a potter. He was all those things, working with intensity, fueled in the last five years of his life by the knowledge of impending death from tuberculosis. Before Van Briggle’s work became widely […]
Novice
By Peggy DeStefano Chubby mother earth Has more rolls Than I know what to do I decide to crisscross her body And with a determined snowplow I corset her in Braver, I become Knees bent, ski poles tucked under my baby bird wings I try for flight Pride before the fall Has me believing I look like ski patrol
What Is It? January 2019
Send your answers to the What Is It contest, postmarked by January 20, to the Mountain States Collector , P.O. box 1003, Bailey, CO 80421. Three winners will be drawn. Winners will receive a year’s subscription to the Mountain States Collector.
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