Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1769
Today’s photograph, which was published in Yankee Magazine in 1966, shows Charlie Hill decorating pieces of Dorchester Pottery. Charlie was a brother to Ethel Hill who married Charles Henderson, second owner of the Dorchester Pottery. Ethel introduced the fruit designs that became so popular.
The following is excerpted from the Yankee Magazine article:
At the end of the Second World War, Hill found himself a Lieutenant Colonel. A graduate chemical engineer from M.I.T., he tried his hand at decorating pottery and enjoyed it so greatly that no other regular occupation has appealed to him since, and now he sometimes spends 12 hours a day at it. The proof of his craftsmanship is in the demand for his products—which is about ten times the present supply.
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