Animal Feeders
Red Wing’s line of chicken feeders, poultry fountains and salt bowls were heavily utilized on farms throughout the Midwest. They were made in a number
Red Wing’s clay industry was built on manufacturing utilitarian stoneware containers made for a seemingly endless number of uses. Long before electricity became widespread, stoneware was used for preserving foods like meats, dairy and fruits/vegetables. Large jars (aka crocks) were heavily utilized by the bottling industry, and even used for washing laundry on homesteads. Spring water companies and liquor dealers transported their products in stoneware jugs. Housewives commonly used kitchenware items like bowls, pitchers and beater jars. Flower pots adorned porches across the Midwest. Farmers used Red Wing’s chicken feeders to feed their poultry. Cities relied on clay sewer pipes for early infrastructure projects.
Thanks to large local clay deposits and a dedicated workforce of European immigrants, Red Wing’s stoneware factories (Red Wing Stoneware Co., Minnesota Stoneware Co., North Star Stoneware Co. and the subsequent partnerships/mergers) combined to be among the largest producers of stoneware in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unsurpassed in quality and output, the city’s clay products were widely distributed and are highly collected today. Click on the item below to learn more about Red Wing’s vast line of stoneware products.
Red Wing’s line of chicken feeders, poultry fountains and salt bowls were heavily utilized on farms throughout the Midwest. They were made in a number
Red Wing’s stoneware companies made a wide range of kitchenware in their time, starting with plain, utilitarian wares in the 1870s and 1880s such as
Highly desired by collectors, stoneware animal examples like standing Albany slip bulldogs, pigs, and cow & calf figures were part of Red Wing’s normal product
Advertising stoneware is one of Red Wing’s most popular lines among collectors, and encompassed a wide range of its product line. Thanks to the ability
In the mid-1890s, the Red Wing and Minnesota stoneware companies started to replace salt glaze with a creamy colored zinc glaze, and the hand-drawn cobalt
The same brown “Albany slip” glaze that was used to coat the interior of large salt glaze pieces was also used on the exterior of
Most people associate Red Wing stoneware with the trademark “red wing” marking. But like most of America’s early stoneware companies, the clay industry in Red