Stanford Pottery

[djrhanover]

Those are fantastic pieces, Bob! Beautiful collection. How about a Kentucky Pirates?

[perezfan]

HOORAY! Another variation...

Bob's Pirate (original post) has the full Beard, while Dave's Kentucky Pirate has just the thin mustache. Cool


Also... My White Elephant has "Athletics" across the chest, but I saw one at the National that said "A's". Very few of either are known to exist... Bob, just curious which version you have (he's turned sideways, so impossible to tell...)

[bobfreedman]

Mine says Athletics across the chest as well as I have seen both now that you mention that.

Also I have received an image from someone that has a Dodger Bum that is blue. Wow!! I would love to own this one but I am not going to sweat all the variations as they appear to be limitless apparently

[Rob D.]

In a friend's collection is a Stanford Pottery Cleveland Indian whose uniform is a road gray rather than the standard white. I've seen the statue in person and can say with 100 percent certainty that the uniform was made to appear gray, as opposed to just being a color variation or "mistake."

Learning about variations like the "Kentucky" Pirate is awesome.

About 10 years ago I was contacted by someone who lived a stone's throw from where Stanford Pottery was once located. He said he had a "black" Indian, which he speculated someone at the factory made after Larry Doby joined the Indians. We spoke twice on the phone, and I must have asked a half-dozen times whether the skin color was below the glaze and not something that was added after the statue left the factory. He assured me it was original.

We made arrangements to meet, and I drove 2 hours to a Burger King off of I-71 in North Canton, Ohio. As I sat in the booth and he walked toward me holding the statue, I could tell from 15 feet away that the black paint on the statue had been hand painted onto the surface and wasn't part of the manufacturing process.

I broke the bad news to him, explained why he wasn't going to be experiencing a cash windfall, bought a few cheeseburgers and some fries for the ride home and left.