Early Bennington Potters Turquoise Glazed Snack Plate & Mug Set, Signed David Gil hand-sculptured some of the details show

some of the details show it significantly paler than it is

This piece may be signed

Ethel Watts Mumford

How silly I feel to have formerly bought boring new padlocks when there are such great old ones around

which add a little texture

Early Bennington Potters Turquoise Glazed Snack Plate & Mug Set, Signed David Gil hand-sculptured some of the details showThis is a terrific turquoise glazed Bennington Potters mug and snack plate set, I think never used, which feels to me super 1950s and very contemporary at once. David Gil founded Bennington Potters in Bennington, Vermont, in 1948 with original name of Cooperative Design, which is how the plates are marked, and I know they date to between 1952 54. They are signed by Gil. The "trigger mugs," date just little later I believe; three of the four are also