Lot #: 126
Price Realized: $900.00
($750 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare One-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar with Magnolia, DE Advertising, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and squared rim, featuring the impressed and cobalt-highlighted advertising, "W.M. PROUSE & CO / DEALERS IN / GROCERIES & DRY GOODS, / MAGNOLIA DEL,." Decorated on the sides with a two-stemmed brushed clover motif. Relatively few Baltimore-made stoneware pieces with Delaware advertising are known. A long, in-the-firing vertical fissure on interior, not visible on exterior. A 3 1/2" faint line from rim on interior, partially visible on exterior. A 1 1/4" x 1 3/8" chip to interior of rim. Two very short, faint lines to rim on exterior.
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