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This mug is generously sized for tall coffee or hot chocolate after a cold winter's day outside. The mug is glazed brown on the outside and green on the inside with the green flowing over the rim to the outside.

The official name of this pattern of dinner and bakeware from Red Wing Potteries is "Bakeware." However, advertising for the pattern used the interesting phrase "Red Wing puts 'Oomph' into earthenware," and displayed it in a larger typeface. Though mistaken, the pattern was frequently referred to as "Oomph" pattern dinnerware and the name has stuck to this day.

Initially offered in 1943, the Bakeware line offered many interesting shapes in a green and brown glaze. A brochure states that Bakeware is "a lifetime cooking ware, smart, colorful, sanitary and tough. Easily cleaned and will withstand hard usage."

Oomph is a heavy dinnerware line, using heavy stoneware clay. As a result, Oomph tends to have the same wonderful manufacturing anomalies that stoneware has. Glaze skips, pops, bubbles and clay separations are common and add greatly to the distinction and character of this line.

Oomph glazes are green and brown, though the actual shades of color vary. The green glaze can vary between a light olive to a dark pistachio. The brown glaze can vary between a light milk chocolate to a dark coffee.

Red Wing Potteries gradually converted from producing stoneware to dinnerware and art pottery. Starting in the 1930's and through their closure in 1967, Red Wing Potteries produced over a hundred different dinnerware patterns. Forms ranged from traditional shapes to the whimsical. Patterns included every design from floral motifs to the abstract. They produced heavy ceramic, fine china and economy dinnerware sets. Some patterns consisted of mostly flatware with few serving pieces. Some patterns consisted of only serving pieces. Other patterns had both.

On the bottom of most Red Wing dinnerware pieces you will find three little dots. These dots are left in the glaze by the little tripod that the Potteries used to support the piece when they fired it in the kiln. The three dots are not damage, they are a remnant of the manufacturing process and authenticate the piece as being actual Red Wing.

Parts

Part	Measurements
Mug	4.65 in (11.81 cm) Height 4.80 in (12.19 cm) Width 3.50 in (8.89 cm) Diameter

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View of one side of the Oomph mug.	Other side of mug.	Bottom of mug, showing unglazed ring.	View of inside of mug.