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SALMON FALLS STONEWARE 2005 DOVER N.H.
Full factory name and Dover identify the pottery; changing the year does not create a new logo format.
impressed · stoneware · Dover, New Hampshire, United States
The year dates this particular object.
Pottery & porcelain
Salmon Falls Pottery marks
On stoneware from Dover, New Hampshire, United States, Salmon Falls Pottery marks carry “SALMON FALLS STONEWARE 2005 DOVER N.H.”.
- Active years
- From c. 1986
- Country
- United States
- City / region
- Dover, New Hampshire
- Products
- salt-glazed stoneware, tableware, crocks and jugs, lamps, baking dishes
- Marks
- 5
The Salmon Falls name was adopted in the mid-1980s. Closing announced August 2025; final February sell-out notice has no year. Earlier Pottery by Andy activity is not the brand foundation date.
What to look for
- Find the SALMON FALLS STONEWARE and DOVER N.H. factory stamp on the wall or base. Read the year inside the lower panel.
- Look for two additional signatures: an impressed symbol made by the potter and a cobalt device added by the decorator. A shell identifies Shelly Estabrooks; the painted S belongs to Steve Willson.
- Match the whole symbol. The grey salt glaze and blue berries occur on other New England and American revival stoneware.
Dated marks & timeline
5 marks
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Narrow upright sheaf or chevron stack with an eye-like top
Jamie Weiss’s sheaf-shaped potter stamp differs from the painted decorator device on the same honey pot.
impressed · stoneware · Dover, New Hampshire, United States
The year dates this particular object.
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Long horizontal cobalt stroke crossed by a slanting upright and short parallel bars
Lesa Morrissey’s staff-like device is painted into the decoration; it is not the vessel potter stamp.
painted · cobalt blue · stoneware · Dover, New Hampshire, United States
The year dates this particular object.
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Scallop shell with radiating ribs
Shell identifies potter Shelly Estabrooks; compare the separate factory year.
impressed · stoneware · Dover, New Hampshire, United States
The year dates this particular object.
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S.
Painted S is a decorator signature, separate from the impressed shell and factory date.
painted · cobalt blue · stoneware · Dover, New Hampshire, United States
The year dates this particular object.
About Salmon Falls
Andy Cochran developed Salmon Falls Stoneware in Dover, New Hampshire, from his earlier pottery business. He had sold pots locally before adopting the Salmon Falls name in the mid-1980s. The workshop occupied a former railroad engine house on Oak Street, combining production with a factory shop. Cochran bought the building in 1990 with assistance from a Small Business Administration loan.
The pottery made salt-glazed stoneware for domestic use, including crocks, jugs, mugs, bowls, baking dishes and lamps. Its familiar grey bodies carry hand-painted cobalt decoration, especially berry baskets and trailing vines. Decorator Helen Berg helped expand the range with teddy bears and blueberry designs. A growing workforce divided throwing, decorating, firing and sales, and the pieces could carry both an individual potter’s stamp and a decorator’s painted signature.
By 1993 the business supplied thousands of retail outlets and offered more than a hundred shapes. Cochran announced retirement plans in 2022, but the business continued and another closing announcement followed in August 2025. The final company notice records the sale of the remaining stock in February. Factory names, individual symbols and impressed years distinguish these modern New England wares from nineteenth-century stoneware.
Also known as: Salmon Falls Pottery · Pottery by Andy (predecessor business) · Salmon Falls Stoneware
Look-alikes & how to tell them apart
Beaumont Brothers Pottery →
Both made cobalt-decorated salt-glazed domestic pottery. Beaumont pieces in the comparison lot carry incised BBP and dates; Salmon Falls has the Dover factory wording.
Individual Salmon Falls artists
Shells, sheaves and painted initials identify workers within Salmon Falls. They do not name separate pottery factories. Pair them with the full factory mark.