Eggshell Cavalier is one of the six Eggshell shapes. 
Below are photos of Cavalier with the
Lily of the Valley CV-3 and Empire Grey decorations.

 Cavalier is well known to most HLCCA collectors,
but are you aware that not all Cavalier is Eggshell?
 Below is Celeste, which was created by combining Brittany cups,
plates and bowls with Cavalier hollowware.
 It was sold to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company 

and other premium companies. 
Celeste pieces are not made from the Eggshell material 

and they do not carry the Homer Laughlin name or logo.
 

Although Eggshell Cavalier never had a coffeepot, one was created later. 
Below is a photo of Tiffany Rose CV-156 pieces,
which were sold to Business Incentives, as well as for other companies.
 Again none of the pieces use the Eggshell material. 
The coffeepot is unmarked, but the plate carries a HLC mark.

-- submitted by Jerry Lefever

Think 50s!
Getting ready for the HLCCA Conference 2013 mixer??
Thursday evening, July 11, 2013

Be sure you make room for that black leather jacket or poodle skirt. 

Or maybe you just need Buddy Holly's glasses, or Donna Reed's pearls or anything from 

aloha shirts and porkpie hats to bobby socks, pedal pushers and varsity jackets ... 

'cos we're going to be heading back to those Fabulous Fifties...HLCCA-style!

Swing

Swing was introduced with the wonderful Eggshell material,

but occasionally collectors might find Swing pieces that are not made 

with the eggshell material. 

  It appears that these pieces were made near the end of HLC’s eggshell material run, 

or after it was discontinued.  

Two examples are shown below:

The first is a Swing 8" plate with the Dubarry CP-133 decoration.

It was made for Cunningham & Pickett, Inc.

The plate carries a standard potter’s, not the usual mark, with the Eggshell logo.

A second gold mark shows that it was distributed by Cunningham & Pickett.

This plate weighs more than the Eggshell plate and has a lower pitched ring.

The second example is a Swing AD Coffeepot.  Changes were made to the side handle and the lid loop handle was changed to a knob.  Also a lid retention lip was added to the lid and a point was added to the spout side of the lid.  It is heavier than an Eggshell version and has a translucent china body.  Perhaps it used the same material developed for the Triumph shape.  The decoration and potter’s mark are platinum.  This might have been sold as an individual serving pot to commercial customers. 

What’s your “Super Bowl”?!

- Fiesta’s 75th Anniversary Marigold Soup Tureens rolling out of the kiln.

photo: Elaine Epperly, 2011

Close-up of HLCCA limited edition Clipper juice pitcher.

70 years ago, in 1943, 

Franklin Roosevelt became the first U.S. President 

to fly abroad in the Clipper - 

the first Presidential Airplane.

HLCCA members: limited edition exclusive juice pitcher celebrating the 1940s; 

log-in with your password for member price. 

HLCCA exclusive limited edition Clipper juice pitcher

Vintage turquoise with Amberstone

 

SAVE THE DATE!
HLCCA Conference 2013 • July 11-14, 2013
Celebrating HLCCA's 15th Anniversary!
Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International Airport
Coraopolis, PA

HLC & Hall China Factory Tours, Exhibits, Show & Sale, Seminars, Auctions, Awards Banquet, Conference Exclusives, Lots of Door Prizes & Giveaways...

Watch for registration forms and further detailed information in spring issue of The Dish, on the HLCCA website, on facebook and here on the blog.

  

"Where your dishes are just as important as your food..."

ARE YOU READY FOR IT? Buy it REAL!

The REAL Deal!