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The history of the Redwing crocks and pottery goes all the way back to the origin of the Redwing Stoneware Company. The Redwing Stoneware Company was founded in Red Wing, Minnesota (hence the name “Redwing”) by a group of local investors. The Redwing Stoneware Company initially found great success and was off to a great start as a leading producer of quality crocks and pottery—the primary method of storage in those days. However, the Redwing Stoneware Company soon began to face competition from other local stoneware producing companies, as well as from other competing producers across the state of Minnesota as well as Wisconsin and Iowa.

 

The introduction of larger state-to-state rail lines brought a wealth of competition as trade between multiple cities caused demand for crocks and pots of each city to rise dramatically. During the early 1900s the Redwing Stoneware company embarked on the establishment of a new company called the Redwing Union Stoneware Company. Over the next 25 years the demand for stoneware began to decline, and the demand for Artware (bowls, vases, glazed pottery) began to rise. To support the image of a new diversified manufacturing company, the name was then changed to Redwing Potteries.

 

Over the next 40 years the Redwing Potteries Company would also expand its products into a third category called Dinnerware. The Redwing line of dinnerware was relatively inexpensive compared to other brands of dinnerware.

 

Unfortunately, in 1967, nearly one century after the beginning of the Redwing Stoneware Company, the Redwing Potteries Company closed for business. Some have said that the inability to upgrade to new, more efficient manufacturing facilities left it unable to compete with foreign competition. Up until the day the company closed Redwing was known for producing hand-painted patterns and designs on many of its dishes.

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