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"Bits" Plates

Bits Series was a name given to six groups of plates which divided the United States into regions and a seventh group for Old England. For each group there were eight 8-1/2" plates and a 14" Chop plate (except that there was no chop plate for the Northwest.) The plates were probably first introduced around 1940 and were not listed in company brochures from 1953, so it can probably be assumed that they were discontinued before then.

From "Collectible Vernon Kilns", by Maxine Nelson, published 1994 by Collector books.

Bits of Old New England

The Old Covered Bridge
Haying
Sunday Morning
The Cove
Old Dobbin
The Whaler
*Tapping for Sugar
Lighthouse

Bits of the Middle West

End of the Drought
Saturday Night
The Mail Train
The Country Fair Blue Riggon
The Corn Huskers
River Commerce
R. F. D.
Fourth of July

Bits of the Old South

*Down on the Levee
Off to the Hunt
A Southern Mansion
Cypress Swamp
The'Old Mill
Tobacco Field
Houseboat on the River
Cotton Patch

Bits of the Southwest

*Pueblo
Grinding Meal
Blanket Weavers
Hogan Dwellers
Baking Bread
Medicine Man
Basket Weaver
The Potters

Bits of the Old West

The Fleecing
*The Horse Thieves
The Train Robbers
The Stage Arrival
The Stage Robbers
The Bar Fly
Thirst
The Possee

Bits of the Old Northwest

Branding Time
Come and Get It
Fur Trapping
Logging
Logging Train
Log Jam
Sheep Herder
Unloading the Nets
(No chop plate for this series)

Bits of the Old England

The plates were not titled in this series, but were numbered one through eight, except for the No. 8 14" chop plate, which was titled "Golden Spur"

* Chop plate has this scene