My name is Patricia Daniel. I have been collecting antiques since the summer I turned 13. I spent that summer antiquing with my grandmother and her sisters, all antique dealers, and I was hooked. By the time I was in high school I was telling everyone that I wanted to run my own antique shop for a living. Alas, fate intervened and I got married, raised a family, went back to college and got bachelor’s and masters of science degrees in geology and taught for a while. But I never quit loving, collecting, and studying antiques. I used to find Chatham Potters stoneware at estate sales in Wichita, KS and loved it, not even knowing it was made right there in Kansas. A few years later my husband was transferred to Independence, KS, which is very close to Oswego and I began to find Chatham stoneware at garage sales. Wow! So I started studying and learned the company had been in Oswego, Kansas from 1976 until 1984 when they closed the doors.
Whenever I start thinking that I’ve collected at least one of everything Chatham Potters ever made, I find something different.