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Stephen Compton

Stephen Compton is an avid collector of mid-18th to mid-20th century North Carolina pottery. Steve has written numerous articles and books about it, including, North Carolina Pottery: Earthenware, Stoneware, and Fancyware (Collector Books, 2011), and Seagrove Potteries Through Time (Fonthill Media, 2013). Widely recognized for his expertise, he is frequently called upon to be a lecturer and exhibit curator. He once served as president of the North Carolina Pottery Center, a museum and educational center located in Seagrove, NC, and is a founding organizer of the North Carolina Pottery Collectors’ Guild. Steve resides with his wife in Raleigh, NC.

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Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain

Thoroughly documented and illustrated with 425 images, Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain is a complete history of Hyalyn Porcelain, Inc., and its successors, Hyalyn Cosco, Hyalyn, Ltd., and Vanguard Studios.

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North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

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North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

North Carolina’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century Moravian potters were remarkable artisans whose products included coarse earthenware, slip-trailed decorated ware, Leeds-type fine pottery, press-molded stove tiles, figural bottles, toys, and salt-glazed stoneware.

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North Carolina Potteries Through Time

Potter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, “If North America has a ‘pottery state,' it must be North Carolina.” North Carolina Potteries Through Time proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers.

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It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (paperback)

Located near the geographic heart of North Carolina, Seagrove is known as the pottery town. Though not the only place where pottery has been made in the state, when you say Seagrove to people, they suspect that you’re talking about pottery. From its modest 18th century beginnings with a few Quaker potters from Pennsylvania and Nantucket, the Seagrove region today hosts more than one hundred potters. This is its history.

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It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (hardback)

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It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (hardback)

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Seagrove Potteries Through Time

Located near the geographic heart of North Carolina, Randolph County’s village of Seagrove is known far and wide as the ‘pottery town’. The road from Seagrove to the Moore County town of Robbins is officially designated ‘The Pottery Highway’.

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Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain

North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

North Carolina Potteries Through Time

It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (paperback)

It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (hardback)

Seagrove Potteries Through Time

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