Rare Stoneware Canning Jar w/ Cobalt Stenciled Cherries: FOR / J. & H. BOROFF / ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO

Fall 2026 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 207

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Rare Stoneware Canning Jar with Cobalt Stenciled Cherries, Stenciled "FOR / J. & H. BOROFF. / ST.CLAIRSVILLE , / OHIO.," attributed to Hamilton & Jones, Greensboro, PA, circa 1870, tapering jar with tooled shoulder and semi-squared "wax sealer" rim, decorated with a stenciled design of a cluster of cherries below the rare stenciled advertising, "FOR / J. & H. BOROFF. / ST.CLAIRSVILLE , OHIO." Relatively few examples of Greensboro advertising stoneware feature the town's desirable cherries motif, this example made for an unusual Ohio merchant, the firm of John and Hiram Boroff in St. Clairsville, in Belmont County, about 11 miles west of Wheeling, WV. Provenance: A recently discovered example. Very nice condition. A small chip to shoulder molding. In-the-firing mottling to reverse / proper right side of jar. A small chip and a few minor nicks to inner rim for lid. Some faint staining to base and staining to underside. H 9 3/4".



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