Item 13210
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful Terra Cotta Bird House made and stamped on the Bottom by "Hewells Pottery, Gillsville GA"
 
The Hewell potters where making these birdhouses in the 1980's (John Burrison, Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery, pp. 233-236). 
 
This beauty features a combed roof and base (the Hewells did this with a plastic fork!), openings on the top to use to hang it on a branch and by the opening to add a perch, and pottery stamp on the bottom.  Stands 10" tall.
 
Excellent Condition. A 3/4" chip on the rim of the roof in the back.  Otherwise, as made. 
 
Ships double-boxed, insured, and FREE
 
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