Lot #: 264
Price Realized: $840.00
($700 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Quart-Sized Stoneware Advertising Jug, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, cylindrical jug with tooled spout, featuring the impressed and cobalt-highlighted advertising, "RANKIN & KANE / WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERS / COR GAY AND HIGH STREET / BALTIMORE." Excellent condition with a 3" thin in-the-firing contact mark to reverse and some old white paint flecks and other residue from use to surface. H 7 5/8".
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