Lot #: 473
Price Realized: $316.25
($275 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Two Sewertile Pig Bottles, Midwestern origin, late 19th or early 20th century, both molded in the form a reclining pig with hole at rear and anatomically-correct underside, including a scarce, small-sized example with incised face, impressed "DICKEY CLAY" on underside, and a large brown-glazed example with applied clay tail and small paper label with printed date "1891". Dickey Clay pig in excellent condition with a miniscule nick to snout. Other pig in excellent condition with an in-the-firing contact mark to side of face. L (of Dickey Clay pig) 5".
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