DISH, BAKING

Description: ROUND PIE PLATE, YELLOW IN COLOUR. CRAZING ON BOTTOM AND INSIDE OF PLATE, CHIPPED SEVERAL PLACES ALONG RIM. INSIDE OF DISH READS "S.P. ALBERTSONS GENERAL MERCHANT FOREMOST ALBERTA ... 1936 PHONE 10". BOTTOM OF DISH INSCRIBED "REDCLIFF... ALBERTA POTTERIES LTD. 9 OVEN WARE"

History: PALTE ORIGIONALLY OWNED BY DONORS MOTHER-IN-LAW MRS.DORIS RUTH HUNT OF FOREMOST (B. KIPP). HUNT'S HUSBAND DR. H.B. HUNT PRACTCED MEDICINE THERE THROUGHOUT 1930'S UNTIL MOVING PRACTICE TO LETHBRIDGE APPROX. 1936. DONOR'S WIFE BARBARA RECOUNTS THAT HER MOTHER BOUGHT DISH AT ALBERTSONS IN ORDER TO BAKE HER WEKLY APPLE AND LEMON PIES. SHE CONTINUED TO BAKE UNTIL HER DEATH IN 1986. AFTER DORIS' PASSING, BARBARA INHERITED DISH. SHE ATTEMPTED TO BAKE WITH IT, BUT FOUND IT HAD BECOME SO CRACKED THAT HER EFFORTS FAILED. SHE CLAIMED IT WAS AN HEIRLOOM UNTIL RECENT DONATION. THE HUNTS LIVED AT 904 13TH STREET IN LETHBRIDGE. ALBERTA POTTERIES LTD. (1931-1938), ESTABLISHED IN REDCLIFF BY JESSIE WYATT AND HIS SONS, FORMER MEDALTA EMPLOYEES.