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Authors: Frances Ruffin, John Ruffin
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$34.95~~
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 676698

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.8

ISBN: 076430206X
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.309768982
EAN: 9780764302060

Publication Date: January 1, 2000
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Blue Ridge China was produced by Southern Potteries in Erwin, Tennessee from 1938 through 1957. The individual items were hand painted by local women and production reached almost 25 million pieces a year, making it the largest producer of hand-decorated pottery in the country. Today Blue Ridge China is collected by thousands of people around the world. This new book celebrates Blue Ridge China and those who made it. Thousands of pieces are illustrated in full color, with informative captions and guide to current values. It includes newly identified patterns as well as many of the old favorites. There is also historical background on Erwin, Tennessee and the people of Southern Potteries.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Very Helpful To Any Blue Ridge Collector February 7, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I found this very useful. I have seven different Blue Ridge Pottery books that I used to identify over 1000 pieces I owned. Now I have dispursed my collection and have no use for my books so I will sell them.

5 out of 5 stars

A must-have for serious collectors! October 23, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This book is a wonderful follow-up to their first book! The pictures are clear; as are the names, descriptions and prices. What more could you ask for to assist you in making knowledgeable decisions about Blue Ridge Pottery? We have used this book and their previous book to help us price new pieces for our collection and have found them both to be invaluable! This book is especially good at showing some of the harder-to-find Blue Ridge pieces! Another "must-have" for any serious collector!

5 out of 5 stars

Blue Ridge China Today July 6, 2000
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

This book has been extremely helpful to me. I couldnt find half of the patterns in the other Blue Ridge book written by Betty and Bill Newbound. I buy and sell Blue Ridge so I am constantly looking for the names of patterns. Frances and John Ruffin are WONDERFUL people. When I cant find a pattern in their book, I email them with a picture and they tell me the pattern name. It cant get better than that! :))

5 out of 5 stars

The most organized & helpful summary of Blue Ridge china. April 13, 1999
21 out of 21 found this review helpful

I have every book published on the subject of Blue Ridge china & Southern Potteries. This is the one that my friends and I use on a daily basis, rarely looking at the others. This book is the first one that we pick up and the one we find the easiest to use and the most beneficial. The authors show hundreds of samples of Blue Ridge in an organized fashion that offers assistance with pattern names, shapes and pricing. The authors obviously used their own collection as well as photos from the collections of others. They have shown Blue Ridge as it is found today (many times with defects). It is a tremendous help to me and I could not do without it! I highly recommend that anyone interested in Blue Ridge dinnerware or china pieces purchase this book. You will not be sorry.

1 out of 5 stars

very poor, to many errors, poorly organized October 3, 1998
7 out of 13 found this review helpful

You would have thought that these authors with the resources at their disposal (collections they visited and chances to take picures of real good pieces)would not have used so many bad pictures. Teapots, candy boxes etc. with mismatched lids. Pattern names placed with wrong plates etc. Would not recommend this book!!!!!

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