Pope Gosser, China Replacements, American Dinnerware

Replacement China in the Discontinued China Patterns Made by Pope Gosser China.

The Pope-Gosser company was organized in Coshocton, Ohio in 1902 by Charles F.  Gosser and Bentley Pope.  In the beginning Pope Gosser experimented with high quality decorative pieces. Later on the concentration was on dinnerware.  The company closed in 1958.

Pope was a skillful decorator who was born in England. He came to America in 1870 and worked at Trenton until 1891, when he moved to Ohio.  At that time he become manager of KTK until 1903, when he left to form the Pope-Gosser China Company with Gosser. The wares were "excellently potted" and the shapes were a departure from existing models.   The company begin to immediately produce high grade translucent china for vases, etc.  Not finding the profit in this line, the company switched to dinnerware which was harder than the usual dinnerware of the times.