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Title: Cantaloupe, What is this?
Post by: antiquerose123 on August 27, 2008, 08:31:01 PM

Hi, have this little Cantaloupe bowl that is attached to a base.  No markings.  About 7 inches long, 2,5 inches high.  Funky colors, and Unknown???

Title: Re: Cantaloupe, What is this?
Post by: antiquerose123 on December 29, 2008, 08:58:00 AM

Now while I was just trying to research the other post (unknown USA pottery http://www.yobunny.com/pottery/index.php?topic=10664.msg29048;topicseen#new) 

I stumbled upon these on ebay (Holt Howard Cantaloupe - Click Here (http://cgi.ebay.ca/4-Vintage-Holt-Howard-Cantalope-Melon-Bowls-1959-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ370136962089QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item370136962089&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318) ), as the outer design is similar on the Cantaloupe.

 So I wonder IF this might be Holt Howard but in another bowl style ???  ???

Title: Re: Cantaloupe, What is this?
Post by: Anne on December 29, 2008, 01:25:22 PM

My guess (and it is only a guess, Rose!) is that they are not made by the same maker as yours. I'd suspect someone either copying a popular design or independently creating it. Either way they are interesting and I've never seen their like over here.

Title: Re: Cantaloupe, What is this?
Post by: antiquerose123 on December 29, 2008, 11:31:28 PM

lol...  :)

I not sure either, since I could find no markings on mine - but the shell design of the cantaloupes is the first time I finally found a body texture similar...

Just so different, and unique.

Mine too was a *wild guess*....just that the body texture was so similar... :-\  Just have to keep trying here.