Question:
I have a bowl from the late 1960′s – early ’70′s. It is slightly oval, 12.1" x 11.2" x 5.5" high at the ‘ends’, cream-colored with brown speckles. It has a 4" tight but discolored crack, wear on the lip, three .25" chips, one 1" x .25" chip, a .5" repaired chip and a .4" ‘defect’ chip (defect in the lip before it was glazed). Otherwise good condition. "RED WING" "USA" on the bottom. Marky

Answer: You have a 12 inch salad bowl with the popular beige fleck glaze. This bowl is the same size and shape as the salad bowl from the Casual dinnerware line, but it does not belong to any of the Casual patterns. Salad bowls from those patterns include artwork that matches other items in the pattern.

Red Wing made many thousands of these undecorated salad bowls beginning in the late 1950s and continuing until Red Wing Potteries closed in 1967. The bowl was packaged with a large wooden fork and spoon and sold as a salad set. These bowls are very common today and while still very useful for their intended purpose, they are not worth much to collectors. Even in mint condition such a bowl is worth only $10 to $15. A damaged bowl like this one is worth very little.

Larry