In existence after 1967
In 1986, local studio potter, John Falconer, opened a new firm under the name Red Wing Stoneware Company on Moundview Drive off of Hwy 61, roughly one-quarter mile east of the intersection with Hwy 19. Their product line was largely in the style of utilitarian stoneware produced by the older firms in Red Wing, along with some newer designs and advertising or commemorative items for clubs or other organization, notably McDonald’s restarants. Their products used red wings and birch leaf decorations, which were applied using glaze decals for better uniformity than the rubber stamped decorations used by the older firms from 1900 until 1947. The pieces are identified by an undated rubber-stamped mark on their bottom, or a glaze decal-applied oval on the side with the company name.
In 1996, Scott Gillmer, grandson of the last Red Wing Potteries president, who had taken over the management of the Red Wing Pottery Salesroom from his sister, Susan, started Red Wing Potteries, Inc. making new hand-decorated, salt-glazed stoneware products in the old style and methods in a shop inside the Salesroom. Their products bore impressed identification stamps bearing the company name and sometimes a date and the initials of the individual potter who had hand-turned it.
Both of these firms underwent ownership and management evolutions over their lifetimes, and each closed in 2015.
