#McCoy pottery

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: McCoy Pottery Dresser Caddy

(submitted by @bugboypip)

[junkologistsgoods]

Vintage McCoy Pottery Strawberry Salt and Pepper Shakers - USA - Cottagecore

[carolynmappleton]

Summer Flowers in a Sunny Vase

[mrsterlingusa]

Spring Buffet

[hopecomesbacktolife]

these 1970s fashion advertisements look soooo much like mcspirk. to me

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--- Designer/Manufacturer: Nelson McCoy Pottery Region: Roseville, Ohio, United States Time period: 1945-1950

[firagasoap]

Wood fired teapot by John McCoy Pottery. www.JohnMcCoyPottery.Etsy.com

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[capecodartist]

Small Business Saturday is almost here!! If you’re in the Sandwich, MA area, visit the Sandwich Antiques Center on 6A and Jarves. These three green pitchers are very festive and are available for purchase from Dealer 74, along with more antique, vintage and gently used items! Pictured from left to right: Nelson McCoy Buttermilk Pitcher, c.1920s, $52. Dartmouth Gluggle Fish Jug, $42. McCoy Basketweave and Morning Glory Pitcher, antique, $75. Shop the Sandwich Antiques Center for unusual and unique gifts. . . . . . #smallbusinesssaturday #antiques #uniquevintage #mccoy #pottery #startanewtradition #pitcher #sandwichantiquescenter #gluggle (at Sandwich Antiques Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClaFx90MkYC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[trekbait]

Kirk's most unbelievable log entries!

Kirk’s logs while in command of the Enterprise are considered some of the wildest and most outlandish entries submitted to Starfleet. They have been the most queried of any set of logs but given Kirk’s status as a hero they were rarely challenged. Yet many today question the authenticity of his records. Some outright wonder if he was high on snakeleaf at the time or was covering up other activities. 

What we can say for certain is that he was not following protocol and recording his records at the time, but filling in gaps much later and backdating them. For example, listen to this: "Captain's Log, Stardate 1672.1. Specimen-gathering mission on planet Alfa 177. Unknown to any of us during this time, a duplicate of me, some strange alter ego, had been created by the transporter malfunction." I’m sorry, if no one knew about it at this time, how are you recording a log about it, Kirk? Clearly, he slipped up there. Do you think this is an isolated case? Let’s jump to 1704.2: "Captain's Log, supplemental. Our orbit, tightening. Our need for efficiency – critical. But unknown to us, a totally new and unusual disease has been brought aboard." 

So let’s go through and see which of Kirk’s bizarre log entries are most likely to be stretching the bounds of plausibility.

They stole his what?

Alien women overpowered the Enterprise crew by unknown means (that happens a lot, it sounds like a security failure being passed off as “there were 20 guys! No, 50! Big ones! 100 big guys with guns!”) and “stole Spock’s brain” to be their new supercomputer. Kirk chases down the thieves with Spock walking like a toy drone. 

McCoy manages to use alien knowledge to “put Spock’s brain back in” as if nothing had happened (perhaps nothing did happen?). Conveniently, McCoy promptly forgets all this knowledge and the whole process hasn’t so much as ruffled Spock’s hairdo. What?? I’m sorry, where are the receipts for all this.

Greek gods?

Kirk claims that a “giant green hand” in space grabbed the ship then an image of the “ancient Greek god Apollo” appeared. This god could crush his ship, call lighting from the sky and grow to an immense size. In the end, he just wanted a girl and worshipers (Lt Palamas weirdly throws her Starfleet training to the wind to accommodate the first). 

Now sure, we’ve encountered a lot of powerful aliens before, but are you seriously just expecting us to have you rewrite a huge chunk of history without so much as some pottery shards to elaborate? What about the other pantheon of gods? Or Klingon gods? Did one of your officers really sell out humanity that fast? Don’t leave us hanging!

Abraham Lincoln in space?

Kirk claims the Excalbians sent a giant vision of “Abraham Lincoln floating in space”, and then to walk around and chat on the ship, for the sole purpose of asking him to beam down to the planet. Why the convoluted form of invite? Kirk never really elaborates. It’s almost as if he’s making the log up as he goes along. 

Once on the planet, Kirk explains, they meet another recreation, this time of “Surak”. The Excalbians don’t seem to have a concept of good and evil and want to test it (is the emotionless logic that Surak brings the most effective example of this?). Ample philosophical literature in the Enterprise’s databanks that would be very insightful is not suggested. Instead, a battle to the death. Drawing from Kirk’s knowledge the Excalbians have them fight “representations of evil”: Colonel Green (legit), Kahless the Unforgettable (racist much?), Zora of Tiburon (niche choice, Kirk. I had to look her up), and Genghis Khan (a rather reductive assessment of his legacy). This sounds more like a scattergun of names from the library databanks than a judgement on the representation of evil.

Prescription strip club?

First up, let’s talk about how Kirk claims that the reason they were found in a strip club was that Lt Commander Scott “became a misogynist” because a female engineer “caused an accident”. McCoy then “prescribed” a visit to sex workers (which also needed the Captain to attend for emotional support) to “cure” him of his misogyny. As if encouraging your chief engineer to view his female staff as sexual objects would help in that regard.

Given this log was recorded immediately after Scott was found over the body of a murdered sex worker with a bloody knife in his hands, I guess A for effort on rapidly coming up with your cover story, Kirk! But then for it to turn out that this whole murder was because Scott was possessed by “the spirit of Jack the Ripper”. Well, that’s one way to keep Starfleet’s reputation clean. And yet again the only evidence that any of this happened was scattered across space while Kirk gets credit for “solving” multiple cold cases.

A planet of Nazis?

Kirk’s “logs” here say that the planet of Ekos had become a “duplicate” of Earth’s Germany under the rule of the totalitarian "Nazis". Apparently, Dr John Gill violated the prime directive to “help” the fragmented planet and drew on Nazi Germany as an example of the “most efficient state Earth ever knew.” Now someone like Dr Gill would know that Nazi Germany had resources and prison labour but was far from an example of “efficiency”. Certainly not if you intended to do it ethically. And why the costumes? The race purity? Sounds more like Kirk spinning a tale based on his very fragmented understanding of that era of history. Does Kirk just get bored reporting planetary survey reports and wants to spice them up; or is this the best cover story he had for why Dr Gill returned home in a photon tube? How did Gill really die?

Prime Time Rome?

Ekos wasn’t an isolated case, but at least that was externally influenced. Planet 892-IV is one of many “alternate Earth’s” (which are, oddly, rarely encountered by any other ship). This planet not only had a copy of Earth’s Roman Empire, but its 20th century US TV culture and Human Christianity. But at least they weren’t “reciting the US Constitution” like they supposedly did on Omega IV. Does Kirk just have a spinning picker wheel of Earth history to pick from when he’s making up these logs? What’s next, a planet of 1920s Chicago gangsters? Oh, wait…

The devil is just a cool guy?

On stardate 1254.4, while exploring the centre of the galaxy to see a matter-energy vortex (sorry, I thought we went there more recently and found god?), the Enterprise was thrown into another dimension which they discovered runs on the principles of “magic”. It was from here that “witches” on Earth came from. 

Their number apparently includes the mythological figure of the “devil”, Lucifer, who Kirk describes as charming and affable. Lucifer aided the crew while on “trial” by the witches for the crimes of humanity in their persecution of their people. Kirk later takes credit for “saving” the devil. While future visitors became welcome, no one has been able to corroborate any of these reports on subsequent surveys (including Kirk it seems).

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Have you ever lied in your duty logs? Let us know in the comments why and if you got away with it.

[johnmccoypottery]

Covered sugar bowl by John McCoy Pottery. www.JohnMcCoyPottery.Etsy.com.

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Vintage Antique Blended Majolica Pottery Umbrella Stand 18” x 10” McCoy ebay Fickle Finds Designs

[kichimiangra]

That feeling when you realize you have taught yourself how to appraise a very specific make and model of Stone Ware pottery based on slight variations in the glaze and nameless size and country of origin label. You aren't sure WHAT it is or WHO made it but you can identify it vs similar looking pottery made by different company even when ebay listings label it as something known. Like "Nah that's not a McCoy brand, McCoy has been doing inset labels since 1905 they wouldn't just stop labeling their name on the stoneware for no reason."

"Yeah no, that's definitely a Monmouth mixing bowl, that was a popular type of ribbing pattern during the 60's, I'm looking for Beehive Ribbing..."

[johnmccoypotteryposts]

John McCoy Pottery

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage McCoy Vase Black Matte Oil Sheen Glaze MCM.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage McCoy Pottery Fruit Harvest Pitcher.