Top Ten Color Guidelines
10. Remember the quote from an Official Hall Color chart and apply it to ALL color charts:
"Colors illustrated are not true reproductions. Please contact your Hall China representative for either the actual colors or additional colors"
9. Use the reference books and teapot numbering guide to help ID Colors
8. All reference guides including this one may be wrong. Hall might even stamp a wrong number.
7. Compare your items to known colors - Compare, Compare, Compare!
6. Don't depend on pictures especially digital ones - See Example!
While browsing the web for a picture of a color wheel I found this nice site of Web Safe Colors. If you want someone on eBay (or for any one with a digital picture) to tell you what color their item is, perhaps this would be a good site to send them to. They can give you the number and you can decide on the color (Chinese Red would be FF0000, Indian Red would be FF6600 these are Hexadecimal numbers). These colors have been tested to look similar on computers. Not all of Hall colors are represented by the chart but you can come close with a many of them.
If you send me a picture to add to the Hall Chart, let me know if one of these number closely matches your item. I can then adjust the color to be very close.
5. Never think Hall never made that in that color
4. Remember Hall made formulations for specific companies.
3. Hall's colors vary from batch to batch (and decade to decade)
Don't be surprised to find some differences in lightness and darkness or even
shades like Red to Red-Orange etc. This can be because of batch
differences, over dipping, over firing, and sometimes a color was reformulated.
2. Some names are Hall names and some are what are commonly used by collectors. Hall can name colors anything they want to, they are not bound by names! Why should you be - - if you don't know the Hall name give it your own pet name - just don't use a name already used by Hall.
Here are some of my "pet names"
Chinese Red - " Fire Engine Red", " Red like the E in eBay"
Mandarin Red - "Like a glossy Fiesta Red", "Wheaties box orange "
Indian Red - " Orange Peel orange", "Screaming Orange"
Emerald - "Kelly green"
Delphinium - "Periwinkle"
Jonquil Yellow - "Citrus", "Screaming Yellow", "Lemon peal yellow"
1. Collect what you like!