Lot #: 273
Price Realized: $120.00
($100 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Lidded Stoneware Butterine Jar with Shamokin, PA Advertising, A.D. Graham & Co., Braddock, PA, circa 1915, cylindrical jar with blue-and-white banding against a gray-glazed ground, featuring the black inscription, "COMPLIMENTS OF / Shamokin Butterine & / Dairy Products Co's / 'GOOD LUCK BUTTERINE' / STORE / THE WORLDS BEST AND ONLY BUTTERINE THAT SUCCESSFULLY HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF / BUTTER, CHURNED IN PURE / CREAM & SOLD ONLY IN / OUR CLEAN BUTTER STORE." Reverse inscribed with black inscription, "MADE IN U.S.A. BY / A. D. GRAHAM & CO. / BRADDOCK, PENNA. / PATENTED 6-2-1914." Includes original glazed lid. Jar with heavy staining to interior and light staining to exterior. Lid with a tight X-shaped surface line to top, not visible on underside, a tiny nick to edge, and traces of old blue paint to finial. H (including lid) 7".
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