Stoneware maker
White’s Pottery (Whites Utica) marks
Noah White bought Samuel Addington's Utica pottery in 1839, close to the Erie Canal.
- Active
- 1839–1907 (stoneware)
- Based in
- Utica, New York, United States
- Marks listed
- 7
- Typical pieces
- crocks, jugs, churns, beer steins
The marks, by date
Each mark’s wording is written out as a transcription: the words and line breaks, not a picture of the mark. Where a source describes a mark instead of quoting it, the description is shown in italics.
Where: side, near the rim
Where: side, near the rim
Also spelled 'WHITE'S UTICA'.
Where: side
Where: side
Where: side
Where: side
Where: base of steins
Company name Whites Pottery Inc. used from 1899.
History
His sons and later his grandsons ran the business, and its name, and the stamp, changed with each new partnership. The firm added beer steins in 1885 and hired German designer Hugo Billhardt in the 1890s. It stopped making stoneware in 1907.
Dating clues
- The stamp wording changed with each partnership; match it against the dated sequence above.
- Steins date from 1885 onward.
Other names on the marks
N. White; N. A. White & Son; Central New York Pottery; Whites Pottery Inc.
Where sources disagree: The Blue & White Pottery Club says stoneware ended in 1907; the Beer Stein Journal article says operations ceased in 1910.
Sources
Marks help identify a maker and a date range, but they can’t prove a piece is genuine. Reproductions and later reissues can carry old marks. This entry isn’t an appraisal.