Stoneware bowl with large star mark

[debodun]

This bowl is 10.75" diameter and 4" deep. It' had a dark brown glaze on the interior. On the bottom is a five-pointed star with the words THE GERMAN in it. I am going batty trying to find this mark or the pottery company that made it. Anyone know?

[Rauville]

Over the years I came across a few of those bowls, and at the time attributed them to the "Star Pottery /Stoneware Company of Crooksville, Ohio". It's entirely possible there has been updated information on them.

Here's basically the same question.
http://www.redwingcollectors.org/ask_the_experts/stoneware/star-stoneware-bowl
 

[debodun]

Thanks. Here's an article on Red Wing & North Star:
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20010828/NEWS/108280310

However, the North Star mark was a small plain star indented into the item, not a large raised one.

Here's a bowl with a similar mark. The seller doesn't know the maker, either.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mixing-Bowl-Blue-Glaze-Stoneware-Pottery-Star-Embossed-Bottom-7-1-4-Original-/230957804046?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35c6286a0e

[KC]

I haven't found the information either.  Love the bowl.  Yellow-ware?