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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 4817914, member: 50"]I just googled and it looks like the same Bauer company did make pottery for a short time in Atlanta. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Pottery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Pottery" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Pottery</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1938, Bauer Pottery sought to expand their market to the East coast by purchasing, and converting to a pottery, an old winery in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" rel="nofollow">Atlanta, Georgia</a>. W. E. Bockman died before Bauer Atlanta was opened. John Herbert (Herb) Brutsche took over management of the Atlanta plant, and James (Jim) Bockman became the Los Angeles plant's general manager. A line of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_art_pottery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_art_pottery" rel="nofollow">art pottery</a> produced in the Atlanta plant was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_designer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_designer" rel="nofollow">industrial designer</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Wright" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Wright" rel="nofollow">Russel Wright</a> in 1945. The Russel Wright Bauer line was not successful and was discontinued shortly after its introduction. The Bauer Atlanta plant was converted into a sanitary ware production plant, Georgia Sanitary Pottery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 4817914, member: 50"]I just googled and it looks like the same Bauer company did make pottery for a short time in Atlanta. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Pottery[/URL] In 1938, Bauer Pottery sought to expand their market to the East coast by purchasing, and converting to a pottery, an old winery in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia']Atlanta, Georgia[/URL]. W. E. Bockman died before Bauer Atlanta was opened. John Herbert (Herb) Brutsche took over management of the Atlanta plant, and James (Jim) Bockman became the Los Angeles plant's general manager. A line of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_art_pottery']art pottery[/URL] produced in the Atlanta plant was designed by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_designer']industrial designer[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Wright']Russel Wright[/URL] in 1945. The Russel Wright Bauer line was not successful and was discontinued shortly after its introduction. The Bauer Atlanta plant was converted into a sanitary ware production plant, Georgia Sanitary Pottery.[/QUOTE]
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