The CeramaStone line was in full production when the Potteries closed abruptly in 1967. Many CeramaStone pieces remained in various stages of completion. To prepare this stock for sale to the public, greenware was fired using various leftover glazes. Items that had been glazed with a base CeramaStone color but not completed were sold partially finished. Thus today we find CeramaStone pieces in non-CeramaStone colors or in color schemes that don’t match any CeramaStone pattern. Learning to differentiate these post-production pieces from standard production items can be tricky.
A significant amount of unglazed greenware from other dinnerware lines also remained in the shop after the workers went on strike. The remaining non-union employees glazed these items, often with the readily available fleck beige glaze. Thus pieces with unexpected (but authentic) glazes occasionally turn up.
