Lot #: 13
Price Realized: $4,800.00
($4,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: Spring 2025 Auction | Ohio & Midwest
Rare Six-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Crock, Inscribed "Whittmore Robinson. &. Co / Middlebury / Ohio," circa 1880, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, featuring the large script inscription, "Whittmore Robinson. &. Co / Middlebury / Ohio." Shoulder inscribed "6" flanked by foliate motifs and underscored with spots. Some fry to cobalt. A thin 4 1/4" crack from rim on reverse. A minor, smooth in-the-firing contact mark to proper right handle. Staining to surface. H 13 3/8".
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