Item 13098
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this uncommon 3 Gallon Stoneware jug made and stamped by "Havens."  
 
This is the work of the Havens potters of Falls and Springfield Townships of Muskingham County, Ohio.  It is likely the work of Samuel J. Havens (1832-1913).  The family worked from around 1860 to the turn of the century.  Few pieces of their pottery are marked (Jeff Carskadden and Richard Gartley, eds., James L. Murphy's Checklist of 19th-Century Bluebird Potters and Potteries in Muskinigum County, Ohio, pp. 243-245). 
 
This beauty features a Semi-Ovoid Form, Pottery Stamp Framed Top and Bottom by Stripes, a bold "3" Capacity Number, and a 6 Loop-de-Loop.  Stands 15 1/2" tall. 
 
Excellent Condition.  A couple nibbles on the spout, a horizontal wear mark in the middle to the left of the decoration, and very minor scattered staining.   That's it!  No base chips, hairlines, cracks, or restoration.  Light dusting of ash on the shoulder from the kiln in the making. 
 
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