Having been produced in Putman, Zanesville and then Roseville, Ohio, from 1848 to the early 1980s, Pennsylvania is a great place to find pieces of  "the real" McCoy Pottery. In the early 1970s one could look in any garage, at an estate sale or under a table in a box at a flea market and buy a piece of McCoy for 25 cents for a planter to $5 for a cookie jar. Now however, these pieces have moved from under the tables onto the tables at antique shows and into collectors' shelves proudly on display. McCoy pottery started with the W. Nelson McCoy company in 1848 by producing crude stoneware in the…

I can "blame" my Mother for becoming involved in antiques and collectibles. Her love and fascination with history and unique items trickled down to me at a very young age. Initially, I admit, at 5 years old, she had to drag me to antique shows, bribing me by giving me a couple of dollars to buy little bisque/china, German/Japanese dolls. These dolls fascinated me as I found that during the late 1800s to the early 1900s, this was what little girls just my age played with. I scoured each show looking for that special little doll and the dealers of course wouldn’t sell it to me until I listened …