| Figure 67 Coffee maker, Hall China, East Liverpool, Ohio, 1942–1948. Whiteware. H. 11 1/2". This form, designed for brewing drip coffee, appeared in the Sears catalogs about ten years after Thorley designed the E-shape. Drawings for coffee makers in various forms appear in the Thorley papers. Mount Vernon was the only pattern used on the E-shape. The “coffee maker and 100 paper filters sold for $2.89” in the Sears catalog; see Margaret Whitmyer and Kenn Whitmyer, Collector’s Encyclopedia of Hall China (Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 2001), p. 95. | |
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