Lot #: 217
Price Realized: $960.00
($800 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Yellowware Log Cabin Bank, Inscribed "Jane Weir," attributed to William Weir at the Thomas Haig, Jr. Pottery, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1850s, molded bank in the form of a log cabin with two chimneys, a hard cider barrel at each end, and slot in underside. Surface decorated with streaks of brown over a yellowish ground and covered in a clear glaze. Underside incised "Jane Weir." A bank of the same form, bearing the inscription, "Moriah Weir / June 15 / 1858 / WW," was sold in Crocker Farm's July 19, 2014 auction, lot 222. A William Weir and his brother, George, appear in the 1858 Philadelphia city directory as potters living at 118 Phoenix Street, not far from the Haig family shop. Census records indicate Anna Moriah Weir, the recipient of the other bank, was likely the wife of William Weir. Jane assumedly is another relative. Banks of this type were adopted out of campaign symbols from William Henry Harrison's Whig Party, which, during the Election of 1840, used a log cabin and cider to declare that Harrison was in support of the common man. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. L 3 3/8" ; W 2 5/8" ; H 3 1/4".
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