The remaining potteries appeared to concentrate more on common, inexpensive pieces of art pottery - the kind that would be purchased in Kresges, Sears, and the like. The Midwest Potteries and American Art Potteries often used stickers, shown in Figure 1, to mark their wares. This makes identification difficult since the stickers are often removed. Of all the potteries located in Morton, the Morton Pottery Company is probably the easiest to identify. Some flowerpots from this pottery are shown in Figure 2.
Glazes are similar to their contemporaries with blue, green, and yellow being popular colors.
It is not easy to tell you have a Morton pottery animal just by a look and feel. As shown in Figure 5, they made a wide variety of animals over the years and there was much overlap between the companies. Although the pig was not pictured in the reference book, the planter did have a similar look and feel as other AAP and Norwood pieces I have seen. More easily identified, the pottery animals from Morton Pottery are relatively heavy because the walls of the figure are thick. An example is shown in Figure 7.