Fiesta Tableware Firm created 12 Corridor China Rhythm tea pots in Fiesta yellow for the East Liverpool Excessive College Alumni Affiliation’s 2022 pottery public sale. That is the primary time a Fiesta colour has been used on a Corridor teapot.
(Picture submitted by Brian Shockey)

The East Liverpool Excessive College Alumni Affiliation (ELHSAA) is looking for donations of native pottery and memorabilia for his or her 28th Annual ELHSAA Pottery Public sale.

The public sale is the group’s largest fundraiser and is held to lift cash for scholarships, bills and packages supplied by the ELHSAA and to rejoice the East Liverpool space pottery heritage.

For the previous two years the public sale has raised roughly $25,000 annually. Brian Shockey, ELHSAA vice-president and pottery public sale chairman, is hopeful to lift that a lot this yr.

“The public sale is certainly one thing we want, it’s what provides our group the funds to proceed on,” Shockey stated.

Whereas the group is on the lookout for donations and consignments of which a proportion of the gross sales goes to them, a lot of the bidding, in keeping with Shockey, is on the customized items made for them by the Fiesta Tableware Firm, Newell, West Virginia.

This yr’s customized objects embody 12 individually numbered vases that have been launched in 2002 and discontinued in 2007. The Monarch Vase created for the public sale is Meadow colour, a colour launched in 2019 and by no means used on the vases. Utilizing previous molds from the 1930s and 1940s, the desk ware firm additionally created 12 individually numbered Corridor China Rhythm Teapots within the Fiesta butterscotch colour. In response to Shockey, Corridor China has all the time had their very own colours, so this the primary time a Fiesta colour has been used on a Corridor teapot. There will even be 12 Fiesta plates in peony, the Fiesta colour for 2022. The plates shall be taken previous to the public sale to W.C. Bunting in East Palestine the place they are going to have a calendar design positioned on them.

Each bit is stamped on the underside as a restricted quantity created for the public sale.

In response to Bob Sells, one of many authentic founders of the pottery public sale, the stamp was created by the late Terry Sfakis, who was additionally one of many 4 authentic founders.

Over time, the vases have auctioned for at least $1,000, the teapots between $100-300 and the plates between $80-100.

“The Fiesta Desk Ware are very nice individuals who have been very supportive of us,” Shockey stated.

There shall be an open home within the museum room on the clock tower on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 24, the place all of the pottery for public sale shall be displayed with objects numbers, so perspective patrons can view what they’re bidding on.

“It’s actually fascinating to have a look at the wares, all this distinctive stuff that has been made over time in East Liverpool or the encompassing space,” Shockey stated. “I do know once I took it over the primary yr, I used to be simply amazed. It’s fairly a historical past.”

The precise bidding will happen on-line at https://www.biddingforgood.com/public sale/auctionhome.motion?vhost=ELHSAA&aalias=Pottery starting Sept. 13, and ending at 10 p.m., on Sept. 27.

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