Product Description

McCoy Pottery: Collector's Reference and Value Guide provides even the experienced McCoy pottery collector with new insights along with over 2,500 pieces featured in 590 beautiful color photographs. McCoy is probably the best known of all American potters due to the wide variety of pieces they produced since 1910--all captured here and given a price range based on today's volatile market.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302486 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
This reference book is exclusively about the pottery made by the Nelson McCoy Pottery Company from 1920 through the Lancaster years of ownership in the 1980s. Information is presented in a sequential format from a collector's perspective, and brief facts and opinions about pieces are included. Hundreds of pieces are featured in dazzling, full-color photos.

Customer Reviews

To the point, full of wonderful photos w/ most recent prices
I really like this book. I recently added a few new pieces of McCoy pottery to my collection. This book has great photos and concise information. It is full of a variety of items that I did not know McCoy produced, but now I do know. I was able to accurately price some items that I have on the market and I was able to review items that I have seen for sale. I was hoping for a book with photos and prices only and that is what I got. There is very little time waisted in this book. The photos are well produced and labeled. Great for those of you who are looking for collectibles and wondering about the justification of their price. I highly recommend this book.

McCoy Pottery Volume One Collecter's Reference & Value Guide
This body of work is a richly detailed piece of reference that has become my source of insight and excitement ever since the moment of purchace. The authors have layed out the Mccoy lines in a chronological fashion, listing also their identifying namesake. These categories are then subdivided into year produced, description, size, mark, available glazes and value. Lines produced by the McCoy are also given a smart descriprion, so that we as collectors gain a little insight as to the backround behind different lines. The book also offers a full history on marks and labels, and will also describe differing values related to pieces with reference to other oddities. Finally we are given a sincere history of Nelson Mccoy Pottery, which is a true asset to the begining collecter. This book is a must have. I find myself consulting it before and after every purchase I make. I have always purchased pottery because it effects my on an aesthetic level. Yesterday I purchased a $10 McCoy jardiniere. My $10 investment turned into $75! because I read the book.

MCCOY LOVERS HAVE ALL THE LUCK
With the third collaboration of HNH, McCoy Collectors have all the luck when it comes to having the very rarest and finest examples of McCoy Pottery at their fingertips.
This book provides a generous number of pages on the subject of Floraline, an often overlooked segment of the McCoy Pottery line produced for the floral industry.
HNH have singled out the best of the best when it comes to the rare and non-production lines. The most helpful section in Volume III can be found in the back of the book. Here HNH have cataloged the entire McCoy line that they have covered in each volume. They attribute the era the piece was produced as well as the volume and page number that each piece can be found on.
I can't say it enough, McCoy Lovers have all the luck!

Please join me in celebrating the life of Margaret Hanson, co-author of McCoy Pottery Collector's Reference and Value Guide, Volume III. Margaret passed away at her home near Seattle, WA on November 1, 2001. Her indomitable spirit lives on in all of those who knew her. She is an wonderful example of what living with passion and beauty is all about. Her's was a life well-lived!