After getting a few of these unknown green pottery pieces, I’ve sort of stopped and decided to let everyone else take a crack at them. You know the ones I mean - usually an avocado or verde green, combined with either blueish, white or yellow drip glaze. Sometimes they’re marked as California, and other times not. Often they have call letters that read “CP” and some other number. Sometimes they say USA.

I see a ton of them on Ebay - basically people who have no idea what they are either. I’d really like to find out one day what the deal is with these pieces. Not that some of them aren’t very nice, but after the first initial excitement at finding older pottery at the thrift I’m going to stop coming home with too many.

This particular piece is a fluted vase in avocado green with a yellow and white spatter pattern on the top. It’s actually pretty nice, and I’ll probably keep it for now. There are no markings on the bottom, but I suspect it’s from California. I wonder why none of these really seem to have a maker’s mark. I’m thinking that perhaps some used to have a foil sticker that was removed. Still, I’ve yet to find one that had a sticker still attached. I’m thinking many of these date from the 60s probably up until the 80s.

More photos are on the Unknowns Page, #A0013.