From: Wally Armstrong armst101@aol.com
Location: Monroe, WA
Date: 7/6/00
Time: 11:45:43 PM
Tom -- Red Wing was proud of the name "Provincial",they used it threee times in their dinnerware. First was in 1943 when they came out with a shape that consisted of four patterns named after four Provinces in France. In 1943 they used it again for a pattern of heavy dinner ware called "Old Provincial" or "Oomph". Then again in 1963 they came out with Provincial Dinner and Bakeware. It was glazed "bittersweet red" with a bisk outer shell on some of the serving pieces.
The big pot you have may be a bean pot with two glazd handles on it. You didn't say whether it had a lid on it or not. Loss af a lid reduces the value about half. The bean pot is valued at about $35 to $50 with lid in mint condition. The one that looks like a frying pan is a casserole with out a lid and is valued at about the same with a lid in mint condidition. The cups are valued at from $7.00 to $10. The little pots are called "Marmites" and need to have lids. They come in handled and un-handled and are valued at from $12 to $15.
This pattern must not have sold well when they came out in 1963 because they not readily available and when they are they are usuall cheap so they arn't selling well even now. They are a beautiful pattern when you set a table with them.