Question:
I have a frying pan like piece. I believe it says Red Wing, but the design is different. It looks like a wing, but it is staight up and down and the name RED Wing Pottery is written right through the bottom. I’d send a picture if I were sure it was Red Wing Pottery. Are the various insignias? Thank Chris

Answer: Over the years Red Wing used several different ink stamps to mark the bottom of pieces. The upright wing mark was used in the 1940s. An oval-shaped stamp with the letters RW was used briefly in the late 1940s. The familiar reddish-pink wing stamp was introduced in 1950 and used until the late 1950s.

The item in the photo is an open vegetable dish from the Orleans dinnerware pattern, one of the four patterns in the Provincial shape made in the 1940s. This piece was sold either with a cover (casserole) or without a cover (vegetable dish). Most collectors would say this piece is incomplete without a cover.

Larry