From: Cheryle
Location: Minnesota
Date: 4/27/00
Time: 4:44:04 AM
In Response to Jonas and in defense of Rusty: "Whoa now- no need to cop an attitude-"and you like being called a liar and have your words twisted around?
"Just relaying known fact and public knowledge"-where do you get your facts? From a book? I guess thats whats wrong with the World today, people need a book on how to raise their children too. " you certainly may have dug up a few of them, however I have never seen them in any of the redwing books?"-my point exactly, books are not the bible of any real collector, there are way too many errors in every collector book I've seen. "Are all the folks who wrote those books wrong then?"-not all, but they assume just like everybody else-just because you write a book doesn't mean your an expert. "I think not- they may have made them but It is my contention that they were not put into production, most likely why you found somewhat intact examples at the DUMP-" Amongst everything else Red Wing Made, yes I belive thats what he said. "and as for the reference books-
maybe you are the one who should be reading them- Maybe you should be on the writing team for the next Potters and their Wares edition," -I know for a fact he's already done more than enough and has gotten no credit for any of it " I'm sure this fact would be of real interest to the thousands of RW collectors who are already under the opinion through fact that RW did not make Rolling pins" - and you can see how trying to tell someone anything different than what they read in their "bibles" gets you. "- if you had then you would have realized that western stoneware has the proof and documentation to prove that they made them exclusively- in fact one of the first ones they made is in the smithsonian museum, the pin was a present to the first lady of the day, again I say, not every piece of stoneware was made by RW- although some still think that even with proof of the opposite-
"do any of the others have a comment on this topic? gary?wally?" Gary is not hear right now and Wally is an "expert" on dinnerware and art pottery. I guess your stuck with just someone that knows a lot about stoneware and has been there and seen it-Rusty