GUEST: These were given to me by my daughter for a Christmas present. They just came out of a yard sale.
APPRAISER: Well, it's interesting that you'd bring these in, because these were actually made not that far from here in Wheeling, West Virginia, by Frederick Rhead, and he was an Englishman who immigrated to America in about 1902, and he went to work at the Avon Pottery Company. What's interesting about these is he used a technique which he learned in England. It's called squeeze bag, where they squeezed slip out onto the surface to make the decoration. Kind of gave it a raised, three-dimensional design. Most pitcher-and-bowl sets only sell in the low hundreds because they're just not very popular, but it's all about Frederick Rhead, the fact that he did it. This shaving mug is probably worth somewhere between $300 and $500. Chamber pots usually sell in the ten-dollar to $50 range, but this one, because he did it, it would probably be at auction worth between $1,000 and $1,500.
