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Before
the nearby interstate was completed in the 1960s
Loveland Art
Pottery was on the main tourist route to
Rocky Mountain National Park. The pottery was popular with
tourists for
its
hand painted pine cone decorations.
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From
1948
Swedish
immigrant Hilmer Roslund owned
and operated the pottery in
Loveland, Colorado. It was first located at 400 S Lincoln Ave and later
moved to 350, next to his residence at 346 S Lincoln.
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Not to
be confused with Rocky Mountain Pottery later
located west
on US Hwy 34, Loveland Pottery was just south of town on US
287.
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The
pottery most often has a clear white rather than
Rocky Mountain's speckly field. Both potteries had pretty hand
painted pine cone clusters.
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Rocky
Mountain
Pottery is more common and often
crazed. Loveland Pottery
usually has the better
glaze-clay
body fit with little crazing.
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Loveland
Pottery is always molded and typically has air
brushed pine cone decorations on either white or
brown fields.
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Our
wall pockets below are very nice examples of the brown ware. |
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The
pottery is sometimes found in other colors without
pine cones. Our spattered yellow glazed ewer has the same form
as the air brushed brown and green.
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The
pink and green finished vase below is impressed Loveland Colorado.
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Look
for Loveland
Art Pottery with foil labels and/or various impressed
marks -- Loveland,
Loveland Art,
Loveland Pottery, Loveland Art
Pottery, etc -- often
with form
numbers. Lehner's shows a
nice flourished Loveland Art Pottery
mark in her book.
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Hilmer
Roslund |
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Hilmer
Jolani Roslund was born in 1893 in Sweden and served in the Swedish
infantry before immigrating to America in 1913. By one account he also
served in the US armed forces during World War I. |
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Mr
Roslund worked for Red Wing Stoneware for twenty six years in Red Wing,
Minn first as a laborer and then a molder. He
married Harriett Lundquist there in 1924. |
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After
Red Wing Stoneware Mr Roslund worked
for Camark Pottery in Camden, Ark for four years and moved to
Loveland with his family in the late 1940s. |
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He
owned and operated Loveland Art Pottery from
1948 until
his death in July 1972. |
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