Crocker Farm

Biography

Crocker Farm Auction is a family business, owned and operated by Anthony and Barbara Zipp and their three sons, Brandt, Luke and Mark. We have been dealing in American stoneware since 1977, and have handled thousands of pieces since that time. We have also spent hundreds of hours researching American stoneware and redware potters in original, period sources, such as census records, city directories and newspapers. New information revealed through our research includes important findings on "H. Myers" stoneware, James Miller (Alexandria, VA) stoneware, Ernestus Bacher (Adams County, PA) redware and several Baltimore stoneware and redware potteries. Luke's article, "Henry Remmey & Son, Late of New York: A Rediscovery of a Master Potter's Lost Years" and Brandt & Mark's article "James Miller, Lost Potter of Alexandria, Virginia" (both published in the 2004 edition of Ceramics in America) have been praised as significant contributions to their field. Brandt, Luke and Mark all graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University. Luke's JHU History Department thesis on the Baltimore stoneware potters won him the department award, and his anticipated book on the subject is near completion.