The Lovely Majolica and McCoy Pottery
McCoy Pottery – In 1910, Nelson McCoy founded the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Co. in Roseville, Ohio. The company manufactured earthenware for kitchen use and they continued to expand and also produced various decorative pieces. To try to overcome some financial difficulties the company was sold and merged with other companies, consequently changing names and owners several times. This history makes it difficult to identify pieces of authentic McCoy pottery, and what’s worse is that McCoy pottery is often unmarked since it was not meant for collectors at that time, only for daily use.