Lot #: 77
Price Realized: $5,015.00
($4,250 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: July 21, 2018 Auction | Anna Pottery
Rare Stoneware Pig Flask with Terre Haute, IN Advertising, attributed to Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, Dated 1879, molded in the form of a reclining pig with incised face and opening in rear, the surface covered in an Albany slip glaze and incised with the inscription, "Peter N. Staff. No 913 Main St. / Choice Wines Liquors & Cigars. / 1879 Terrahaute(sic) Ind. / Use but dont / abuse the Liquid of this pork-". Featuring an unusual and charming slogan, this flask was made to advertise a Terre Haute, Indiana saloon, once referred to as the Lake Shore Saloon, owned and operated by Peter N. Staff. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, from a long-term Midwestern collection. A 1" flake to side of one front leg. A few chips to rear legs. L 6 3/4".
Extremely Rare and Important Stoneware Snake Temperance Keg "By Jacob Bachley," Texarkana, AR, c1880
Important Anna Pottery Stoneware Horace Greeley Political Pig Flask, One of Only Three Known
Very Rare Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Snake Jug, 1885
Exceptional Stoneware Temperance Jug with Snakes, Frog and Map, Texarkana Pottery or Anna Pottery
Important Anna Pottery Stoneware Pig Flask w/ Glass Eyes and "Healthy Year for Democrats" Inscription
Anna Pottery / 1882 Frog Inkwell, Wallace & Cornwall Kirkpatrick
Exceptional Anna Pottery Pig Bottle from Steamboat Fleetwood to the Cincinnati Weekly Times
Exceptional Anna Pottery Indian Head Stoneware Peace Pipe w/ 1873 Presentation Inscription