Artist's Initials
| It has been estimated that well over a hundred and twenty different people
decorated Stangl's hand painted birds at one time or another. During the
early 1940s the birds were so popular that they were being decorated at both
Stangl's Flemington plant, their Trenton plant, and even at people's homes
on a piece work basis. Almost all of the birds were initialed by the artists
who decorated them. The birds decorated at Flemington generally had three
letters used as the "artists mark". The first two would be the artists initials
and then an F for Flemington. The Trenton pieces typically had only the artists
initials. (Note: In some cases the same initials may have been used by two
or more people if they worked at the pottery at different times. In cases
where two people with the same initials worked at the pottery at the same
time, then a "code" would used for one of them. This "code" could be as simple
as reversing the initials, using a middle name, using only one initial, etc...)
Below are two lists of artists initials. The first list is the Flemington artists. The second list is the Trenton artists. (The list of Flemington artists is based upon an article in The Stangl / Fulper Times, "Flemington's "F" Girls Revisited", January 2000, Volume 5 Issue 1. Thanks to the Stangl/Fulper Collectors Club and especially Floss Avila.) |
Flemington Plant Artist Initials |
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| AAF | Ann Fitzpatrick Arnity | ||
| AHF | Unidentified |
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| BBF | Beth Boyd | ||
| BBF | Betty Butterfuss | ||
| BKF | Unidentified | ||
| BPF | Possibly Beth Painter | ||
| CBF | Unidentified | ||
| CHF | Unidentified | ||
| CSF | Christl Stangl Bachelor |
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| CVF | Colinne Van Arsdale |
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| DBF | Doris Boyd Case | ||
| DCF | Dot Cottrell | ||
| DDF | Dot Denise | ||
| DKF | Doris King Stout | ||
| DMF | Dale Morian | ||
| DSF | Dot/Doris Salter | ||
| DWF | Unidentified | ||
| EBF | Eunice Boyd | ||
| EBF | Elsa Barrick Miller | ||
| EGF | Unidentified | ||
| EKF | Elizabeth King Suydam | ||
| EMF | Unidentified | ||
| EPF | Eleanor Pedrick Trout | ||
| EPF | Eleanor Pyatt | ||
| ESF | Unidentified | ||
| ETF | Unidentified | ||
| EWF | Emma Waldron Santos | ||
| EWF | Edna Whitlock | ||
| FHF | Faith Hommer Droppa | ||
| FMF | Unidentified | ||
| GCF | Grace Cronce Hall | ||
| GHF | Grace Cronce Hall | ||
| HCF | Unidentified | ||
| HMF | Unidentified | ||
| IFF | Ida French | ||
| IHF | Irma Hall | ||
| JAF | Jean Allegar | ||
| JBF | Jean Britton | ||
| JGF | Jean Godley | ||
| JGF | Julia Galina Campbell | ||
| JHF | Jenny Pedrick Huffman | ||
| JJF | Unidentified | ||
| JLF | Jean Lechski LeBold | ||
| JTF | Jean Taylor Polasek | ||
| JVF | Josephine Van Roy | ||
| JWF | Jane Wurst | ||
| LMF | Lucy Mannon Sheetz | ||
| LSF | Laura Shaunsy Bailey | ||
| MBF | Mary Barrick | ||
| MBF | Marion Barry | ||
| MDF | Marion Dalter Stone | ||
| MHF | Margaret Higgins Hall | ||
| MHF | Mary G. Hawke | ||
| MLF | Mary Lesson | ||
| MLF | Mary Longo | ||
| MMF | Margery Miles | ||
| MMF | Mildred Moody | ||
| MPF | Mary Pyatt Villani | ||
| MRF | Marion Riddle | ||
| MSF | Marion Stenabaugh | ||
| MTF | Marion Trimmer | ||
| NKF | Unidentified | ||
| NRF | Unidentified | ||
| NTF | Norma Tarnatola Rolla | ||
| OPF | Olga Polhemus | ||
| PHF | Peggy Hughes | ||
| RCF | Ruth Curtis | ||
| RKF | Ray Killinger | ||
| RKF | Rose Kadezabek Schmid | ||
| RTF | Rose Tedeschi | ||
| STF | Shirley Thatcher Spaciano | ||
| TVF | Unidentified | ||
| VGF | Veta Garrison | ||
| VLF | Virginia Lesson Hartly | ||
| VMF | Verna McPherson | ||
| VPF | Unidentified | ||
| VRF | Viola Reamer | ||
| WSF | Unidentified | ||
| Trenton Plant Artist Initials | |||
| AIW | Unidentified |
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| AL | Alberta Lee Burkhalter | ||
| AK | Unidentified | ||
| AP | Unidentified | ||
| AZ | Unidentified | ||
| BM | Unidentified |
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| BP | Unidentified |
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| ES | Unidentified | ||
| FD | Florence (Flo) Dunn Glenn | ||
| GB | Unidentified | ||
| IK | Unidentified | ||
| JG | Unidentified | ||
| JVK | Unidentified | ||
| JWK | Unidentified | ||
| KL | Unidentified | ||
| MIN | Unidentified | ||
| MK | Unidentified | ||
| MP | Unidentified | ||
| MM | Unidentified | ||
| MS or SW | Unidentified | ||
| MV | Unidentified | ||
| MW | Margaret Walsh | ||
| RK | Possibly Ruth Klenk | ||
| RV | Possibly Rosa Veglianetti | ||
| S | Unidentified | ||
| SW or MS | Unidentified | ||
| V | Unidentified | ||
| VR | Unidentified | ||