![]() The white plates looked so familiar so I went into my kitchen cabinet and checked the bottom of the plate and there it was the stamp on the bottom. I was reading this post and realized that I also have quite a bit of pieces from the Heritage Collection and didn’t realize it. I had never heard of this before and like you I become completely fascinated with finding out the history of the things that I find in thrift and antique stores so I went down a rabbit hole and well here I am lol. The are white and blue and it turns out that they are the Pfaltzgraff Yorktowne Collection. I just happened to find this post though last night when I was doing some research on some other stoneware pieces that I have collected. Hi, I’ve been watching your channel for about a year now and I love it. People have complimented my pedestal mugs the most however….I’m glad someone else loves them as much as I do. But secretly, the perfection of the sugar bowl astounds me. I’m a lucky girl! My favorite piece is my large soup tureen. She actually ended up buying me the entire Christmas Heritage set. She told me she wished she had chose heritage. And not once in 23 years, have I ever thought about changing my dishes. I have fed hundreds of people in a handful of homes that I’ve lived in over the course of 23 years. I’ve made a lot of poor decisions in life. My plates have carried PB&J sandwiches and filet mignon. As much as we enjoy their beauty, They were built to last. And I knew that whatever color change I made toy kitchen, those dishes would fit right in.my mother told me the special thing about Pfaltzgraff is you can use them everyday and they are even more suitable for a formal Thanksgiving table. ![]() She thought otherwise so we went to work.My mother immediately dragged me to the Pfaltzgraff display. I already had a complete set of Correll so I said I don’t need dishes. I am so glad to see that Heritage dishes are still loved by so many.Īlso I have washed my dishes in the dishwasher all these years.Īfter getting engaged in 1997, I faced the daunting task of registering for “stuff” My mother had come with me because I had no clue what I was doing. I have two – 40 piece sets (serving for 8) which included dinner plates, bread and butter plates, cereal bowls, cups and saucers extra dinner plates that were seconds coffee mugs fruit bowls vegetable dishes small platter large platters casserole dish(lid broke) au gratin dishes gravy boat and saucer mixing bowls( only small bowl survived) salt and pepper set custard cup pitcher butter dish small pitcher and bowl set. I have many pieces and sadly some have broken over the years. I was married in 1978, and choose Hertiage for our dishes. When a shipment came in we would look over each piece and if there were any defects or a piece arrived broken in transportation, we notified the company and they we send replacements. ![]() We looked forward to new shipments of Pfatzgraff arriving. Lifetime closed the 67 “Pottery Hill” stores.I am so happy so see so many love the Heritage dishes. In 2005, Pfaltzgraff became part of Lifetime Brands, Inc., a leading designer of home products. Retail stores, named “Pottery Hill” were opened in York County, Pennsylvania, Flemington, New Jersey, and Fairfax, Virginia. Over the next 15 years, Pfaltzgraff expanded by construction a new manufacturing and distribution center in Thomasville, North Carolina, the purchase of Stangl Pottery of Trenton, New Jersey, and the acquisition of factories in Aspers, Benderville, and Dover in Pennsylvania. In 1964, the company became The Pfaltzgraff Company. The production focus changed again in the late 1940s and early 1950s when Pfaltzgraff produced more and more household products, including its first dinnerware line and giftwares. ![]() The company’s historic records were lost when the plant burned down in 1906. The new factory was next to a railroad line. In 1894, Henry and George Pfaltzgraff, two of the five sons, built a new plant. When the demand for stoneware diminished, the company shifted it production to animal and poultry feeders and red clay flowerpots. They introduced a line of salt-glazed stoneware storage crocks and jugs. When Johann George Pfaltzgaff died in 1872, his five sons took control of the pottery. In 1849, Pfaltzgraff sold the Freystown pottery and established a new pottery outside the village.
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