Monday, October 2, 2017
Sleepy Eye Pottery
One of the more popular potteries today is Sleepy Eye Pottery. Old Sleepy Eye was a Native American chief. Sleepy Eye is also the name of a town in southwestern Minnesota. The original Sleepy Eye flour mill was built in 1883, in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
At the turn of the 20th century Sleepy Eye started a
promotional line of pottery and other items. In 1903 they created a line of
blue and grey Flemish ware made by the Weir Pottery of Monmouth, Ill., including salt bowls, butter crocks, vases
and steins. The pieces of pottery were
given away to with 50lb. barrels of flour as a promotion. However, the government intervened in the giveaways, perhaps
because the rather heavy pottery pieces had a negative effect on the amount of
flour that was contained in those 50lb. barrels. The stoneware pieces were
later sold, printed with advertising, to grocery stores and such.
Today Sleepy Eye Pottery is highly priced
by its collectors. Most people know about Sleepy Eye pottery because of the
Indian face that is on a lot of the pottery. Many different companies have made
the pottery and some collectors buy according to who made it. The Flemish pieces
are harder to find and more valuable. Also the pottery is very big with people
that collect country and general store items.
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