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Little Red Riding Hood is one of my passions. Most of our pieces
were made by either Hull Pottery or by Regal China, though we do collect
some other nice "Little Red" pieces.
Hull acquired the original patent but apparently, later, turned it over
to Regal. Even before Regal began producing the line, they were doing
most of the decorations for Hull. Hull only made a few of the
pieces themselves. They made the covered jar, often referred to as
a grease jar, with the pretty bow on it that can be seen in the picture
below to the left, an open basket cookie jar which carried several different
decorations and the kneeling salt and pepper set with matching figurine
(shown in one of the photos below). The other pieces in this line,
as far as I have been able to ascertain, were produced by Regal though
the whole line is generically known as "Hull's Little Red Riding Hood".
Do be very careful if you decide to start collecting "Little Red".
It is being heavily reproduced. Even the Brush jar shown below has
been reproduced. (The one below is an original but it is sometimes
hard to tell.) If you see hardly any crazing on any of the pieces
that were produced by Regal instead of Hull, you can almost be assured,
they are repros. Regal used a vitreous material (china) which doesn't
craze. I will put some photos to help distinguish real from reproduction near the bottom of this page.
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