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THBAntique Canadian W. E. Welding Works Stoneware Crock
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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- Lot Description
Antique Canadian W. E. Welding Works Stoneware Crock. Dark interior, blue-and-white floral motif on bottom, with the words "W. E. Welding Brantford, Ont." and a large "4" incised on the top between the two handles.
Condition: Commensurate with age and use.
Size: 11 x 11 x 12 in.
#7018 .
In 1849 a businessman named Justus Morton opened Morton & Company in Brantford, Ontario. The business was located at the corner of Clarence and Dalhousie Streets and was one of the first in Canada to make common salt-glazed container stoneware. A. B. Bennett became a partner in the business around 1856, but the partnership was dissolved a year later and Morton leased the factory to James Woodyatt and Company. Morton took over the company once again with Franklin P. Goold as his partner after Woodyatt gave up the business to become Brantford’s town clerk in 1859. However, Morton finally decided to abandon the business for good just a few months after the acquisition, and sold it to Goold and his new partner Charles Waterous. In 1864 the company won first prize at the Canada West exhibition for an assortment of stoneware, but continued to struggle economically. In 1867 Goold sold the pottery company to William E. Welding, who had been manager of the business for a number of years, and William W. Belding, a traveling salesman, for $3,200. A fire broke out on December 1st, 1872 that leveled all of the buildings and destroyed all their stock, tools, and equipment. Welding sold the property to his partner, but then repurchased the site at a reduced price a year later, building a brand new factory which opened in August of 1873. At this point it became known as W. E. Welding Works, and throughout the 1870s the factory started to make molded pieces rather than wheel-turned ones, with a mottled tortoise-shell brown glaze they called Rockingham. In 1883 the business was destroyed by fire again, but this time the exterior of the building was spared and only the interior needed to be rebuilt. Consolidation and restructuring during the rebuild led to Rockingham and their yellow-glazed housewares becoming their main products. In 1894 Welding retired and sold the business to a trio of investors: Dr. David Lowrey, John Hemphill, and Henry Schuler. However, due to their inexperience, Welding continued to assist the company until he died in 1903. The pottery maker was incorporated as the Brantford Stoneware Manufacturing Company on August 11th, 1894, and for the next decade the company enjoyed its most success yet making Rockingham, caneware, majolica, stove linings, firebrick, and wares for chemical and sanitary purposes. In 1906 the business was dissolved suddenly, and the plant and the land were sold to Solomon Malener and Abraham Rosenfeld in 1907, who renamed it the Brantford Rag and Metal Company. The company experimented with a variety of low-cost manufacturing and stoneware processes through both the First and Second World Wars, but materials shortages and a rapidly changing global economy led to a steady decline from the 1950s onward. The land and the building were sold to Firestone Stores in 1966, and the factory was torn down later that year. Despite their numerous owners and poor business decisions, their products were very reliable and highly sought by British and Canadian collectors, and can be found in abundance as they existed for nearly a hundred years without any other serious competition in that region of Canada.
Condition
Commensurate with age and use.
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11 x 11 x 12 in.
