Lot #: 267
Price Realized: $270.00
($225 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Canning Jar with Maysville, KY Advertising, Western PA origin circa 1875, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and inner "wax sealer" rim, featuring the stenciled cobalt advertising, "McCarthey / & / Bayless / Louisville. / Ky.," flanked by stenciled foliate motifs. Some faintness to stenciling. A curving crack descending 4 1/2" from rim on jar's left side. A minor in-the-firing base chip and two tiny base nicks. Shallow chipping around interior of rim. A few chips to inner wax sealer rim. H 6 5/8".
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