I purchased this lovely set of Cannie Ridge Pottery canisters a little while ago. However, I was only able to find some scant historic details about the pottery where they were made. The canisters are stamped: Harcourt Vic Cannie Ridge Pottery Made in Australia.
I contacted Bendigo Pottery (Australia’s oldest working pottery) for historical information, and they replied as follows:
Cannie Ridge Pottery was started by Allan and Mary Letts with son Gary in the mid 1970s. According to our records Allan was born in 1921 and worked at Bendigo Pottery prior to starting Cannie Ridge. The records we have show A Letts here 1971-1974 and an A Letts here 1942-1950. We have some gaps in our records 1950s and 1960s as Bendigo Pottery was owned by partly by Martin Stoneware and then Humes Pipes. Cannie Ridge continued until around 1990, not sure of the exact date. Apparently they had up to 16 employees in busiest time.
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