Schulz Porcelain, Portland, Oregon - Items and Mt St Helens Ash Introduction Dates

The following conversation has been been published here to answer others' similar questions. And following that is a list of the items and the appromimate years they were introduced.

From: Carol W
>Sent: Jan 8, 2006 7:00 AM
>To: schulzporcelain@earthlink.net
>Subject: Oregon Banner Mug
>
>Hello!
>
>I was wondering if there was a way to tell the year an Oregon Banner Mug was
made. Mine has white lettering and white waves instead of the blue that is currently
showing on your website.
>
>Thank you for any info you can give.
>
>Sincerely,
>Carol W
From: Stephanie Schulz <schulzporcelain@earthlink.net> Flag Message | Mark Unread
To: Carol W
Subject: Re: Oregon Banner Mug
Date: Jan 8, 2006 1:36 PM

Well, youve got me curious too, I had started an historical records compilation
as a book I'd intended to publish, but never got very far, and now that I tried
to find what I'd had on disk, I couldnt, but, I did find my Mom's old records on
past catalogs, and found the Banner Mug was not in the 1997 one, but was in the
1998 one, so thats as far back as I could trace it, but there's really probably
no way to tell exactly. We have been making them the same way, no dates. No records
have been kept as to changes in methods or experiments. All I can say is if it
is all brown that is pure mt st helens ash dated 1980-1984 about, then we were by
then entirely glazing things the blue brown and white that you see today. I guess
we never really thought they would become 'collectable', except from the tourism
aspect of it. We were happy just to produce good functional everyday ware., and
were just 'small potatoes' The Banner Mug is still sold at the Made In Oregon Stores.
I dont know if you found my website,, it is still under construction,
http://home.earthlink.net/~schulzporcelain/welcometoschulzporcelainusa
and my Ebay Store at
http://stores.ebay.com/Schulz-Porcelain
Well, thats all I can tell you, except that I will try to add dates on the items
of when we began production, and other historical notes, in the website now, probably
title a page called SP Historical or something,,not sure,,
but, thank you for your question, it has inspired me to do this, and, perhaps one
day the value of our work will grow because of it! We just never wanted to get stuck
with a bunch of dated merchandise that we couldnt sell the next year, and were never
organized enough to number limited editions,, plus, we we up against huge manufactories
that did,, 'limited production of 10,000' etc,, wow, huge numbers, so we just didnt
bother to compete,, Im pretty happy to just still stay small anyway. But I think
there are folks out there wanting to see if what they have is worth alot or not,,
one thing I can say is I did see an all-brown mt st helens ash made by us, which
we used to sell for $3-5.00 each, selling at an online antiques dealers page, asking
for $15.00,, quite a markup, since 1980 when it was made!
Time will only tell, its never the actual artist that gets rich from these dealings,
is it? :)
Well, I think since I have had other inquiries about this sort of thing, I will
copy and paste this into my website (minus your em addy of course!, so other collectors
can read it as well.
Thank you so much, again, for your interest!
Stephanie Schulz, Schulz Porcelain 1/8/06

Items' Historys -

This Sculptured Porcelain Series was first started in Feb 1981. Before That, only Schulz Stencil Ware was Produced, June 1978-Feb 1981 The Stencil Ware Line is Discontinued. We have many Gold Lable Stencil Ware pieces, which may be sold at a later date to interested collectors. Inventory/photos need to be made, again, at a later date. Mt St Helens Ash was tested in 1980, after the May eruption
and seriious production began Aug.1981. Also at that time, many other colors were tested but were quickly eliminated in favor of Blue, and the Mt St Helen's Brown Ash. It wasn't until about a year after that that we started doing the added step of detailing to reveal the white clay, which became the current line of 3-tones which has become the Schulz Porcelain Trademark Glaze. Following are the intro dates, as available for this entry:
(further research is underway.)

Item Name Date Introduced
1 Fish/Elk Mug (10 oz) 1981
2 Banner Mug (10 oz)
3 Cylinder Mug-Mult.Falls (10 oz)
4 Tapered Mug (10 oz)
5 Mult.Falls/Portland City Mug(10 oz)
7 Oregon Shotglass
8 LG Stein/Mtns
9 Mini Stein (2 1/2")
10 Mini Pitcher (3")
11 Wine Goblet
12 Wine Chiller
14 cBacchus
15 cBear Sm
16 cCat Head Sm
17 cDuck
18 cFish
19 cFox
20 cGrape
21 cMonkey
22 cMouse
23 cOtter
24 cOwl Sm
25 cPelican
26 cPenguin
27 cPig
28 cQuail Baby
29 cSeal
30 cSlpg Kitty
31 cWhale
32 cWinemaiden
33 cWinemaster
34 Carousel Horse Thimble
35 Coast Thimble
36 Fern Thimble
37 Lighthouse Thimble
38 Mt St Helens 1980 Thimble
39 Mt Hood Thimble
40 Rainbird Thimble
41 Spiderweb Thimble
42 Plate:Fish
43 Plate:Mt Hood Winter
44 Plate:Mt. Hood
45 Plate:Mult. Falls
46 Plate:SnowScene
47 Bell:MSH 1980,w/handle 5"h 1982
48 Bell:MSH 1980,No handle 3 3/4"h 1982
49 Bell:Hood,Lg w/handle 5"h 1982
50 Bell:Hood,Lg,No handle 3 3/4"h. 1982
51 Bell:Noel,w/handle 5"h 1990
52 Bell:Noel,No handle 3 3/4"h 1990
53 Bell:Cascade w/handle 3 1/4"h 1982
54 Bell:Cascade Tree,No handle 2"h 1982
55 Bell:Liberty,w/handle 3 1/4"h 1982
56 Bell:Liberty,No handle 2 1/4"h 1982
(Liberty) Myrtlewood Handle Bell
57 Bell:Church Bell, 5"h. 1986
58 Bell:Fern Angel, 4 1/2"h 1983
59 Bell:Bacchus,2"h
60 Bell:Winemaiden,2"h
61 Bell:Winemaster,2"h
62 Bell:Sleighbell 1 3/4"h. 1995
63 Bell:Pig 2 1/4"h
64 Bell:Cat Head Sm.2 1/4"h
65 Bell:Cat Head Lg,3"h.
66 Bell:Whale,2"h.
67 12 Days of Christmas 1996
68 Cascade Snowball 1990
69 Angel Gabriel Medal'n 1995
70 Baby Jesus Medallion 1987
71 Madonna Medallion Sm. 1982
72 Madonna Medallion Lg 1990
73 Medieval Angel Medal'n 1982
74 Medieval Bird Medallion 1982
75 Medieval Lion Medallion 1982
76 Wilderness Medallion 1990
77 Apple 1991
78 3-d Angel Sm 1982
79 3-d Angel Lg 1982
80 Flat Angel 1982
81 Bear Sm 1982
82 Bear Med 1992
83 Bear Lg 1982
83a Butterfly
84 Cowrie Shell 1996
85 Cat Head Sm 1991
86 Cat Head Lg 1991
87 Carousel Horse 1982
Clown 1982
88 Crusader Horse 1982
89 Dolphin 1979
90 Duck 1989
91 Earth 1972
92 Edwardian Santa Shorty 1995
93 Edwardian Santa (GiftBox) 1982
94 Edwardian Santa (Tree) 1993
95 Edwardian Santa(Wreath) 1994
96 Edwardian Santa(Beard) 1996
97 Fish 1989
98 Fox 1996
99 Frog n' Tadpole 1996
100 Grape Cluster 1991
101 3-d Hansel und Gretel 1979
102 Holly Bird 1982
103 Monkey 1988
104 Mouse 1988
105 Nutcracker 1996
106 Otter 1978
107 Owl Sm 1982
108 Owl Lg 1994
109 Pear 1991
110 Pelican 1982
111 Penguin 1982
112 Pig 1982
113 Possum N' Babies 1995
114 Quail Mama 1982
115 Quail Baby 1982
116 Rabbit 1985
117 Sandollar 1990
118 Scallop 1990
119 Seal 1978
Seagull- o&d
120 Sleeping Kitty 1985
121 Snowbird 1982
122 Starfish 1990
123 Troll 1991
124 Whale 1979
125 Winged Santa 1979
118a Sea Horse
121a Snowman
122a Tree Top Angel
123a Victorian Doll
53a Myrtlewood handle bell 3 3/4"
59A Bell:Santa , 4 1/2"h
65a Bell:Nodder
83a Butterfly
87a Chimney Sweep
96a Egg-Lg:M.Falls/Mt.Hood
96b Egg-Med: Tree/St.Nick
96c Egg-Sm: Family Values
Chimney Sweep with mini book
Flat Chimney Sweep 1982