Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors' Club
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Welcome!
To the official website of the
Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club
(BMPCC)
The photo above shows just a small sampling of the many different colours and forms of Blue Mountain Pottery that were made while the factory was in business.
BMPCC: Do you want to learn more about Blue Mountain Pottery?
The BMPCC stands for the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club. We are a growing group of people who first got together July 8-9, 2003 to share our interest and information about the Canadian Pottery we discovered and had decided to collect. Since that day the club has grown from 13 members to a group of about 130 but we are still growing, with members from all over the world in such places as the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, the U.S. and, of course, Canada.
One of the surprising things a lot of people learn when they walk into a members home as they look around and ask “I thought you collected Blue Mountain Pottery? I don’t see any.” So as the collector starts pointing out their treasures the response we get is “I thought it just came in GREEN?” Our guests look quite shocked as we show them the Harvest Gold, Cobalt Blue, Red, Slate, Mocha, White Magic and Pewter glazes just to mention a few of the colors as well as the pieces in Green.
We are often asked why a person should join? We do it for the love of the pottery, the knowledge we share and the friends we make. For the most part we are a social club that shares information, experiences and our passion for collecting Blue Mountain Pottery. Our website is one of our central hubs for sharing. The club also offers a list serve in order for members to share information, get help with pottery identification and just keep in touch with each other. A newsletter that comes out about four times a year is included in the annual fee. We also hold an Annual Convention and have other events during the year such as BBQs or “Meet and Greets”.
Our first two conventions were held in Collingwood (the birthplace of Blue Mountain Pottery) and the following two were in Niagara Falls. In 2007 we returned to Collingwood and have been there since. We have been very fortunate in having some great guest speakers like Denis Tupy, the first mould maker who later owned CCC Pottery of Canada, Mr. Robert Blair, the last owner of Blue Mountain Pottery, George Weider son of late Jozo Weider the founder of BMP, Henry Tupy who worked at several of the Canadian Potteries including Sofia Originals, Canadiana Pottery, CCC Pottery of Canada, and Rainbow Ceramics before opening his own pottery company Rainbow Pottery, Michael Stanzione son of the late Dominic Stanzione who worked in the Pottery Studio at Blue Mountain Pottery and later produced his pottery items under the names Artistic Pottery and The Pottery Studio.
See the Special Events page for information about this year’s convention.