Item 13269
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful 1 1/2 Gallon Stoneware Cream Pot that reads, "Jas. Hamilton & Co., Greensboro, Pa."  
 
James Hamilton ran his pottery in Greensboro from the 1860's to 1880 (Phil Shaltenbrand, Big Ware Turners, pp. 154-157). 
 
Circa 1875, this beauty features Stripe at the Top and Bottom that Frames the Company Advertising on a Banner Intertwined with an Elaborate Patriotic Shield in the Middle, and the Capacity Number Flanked by Leaves at the Bottom.  This was a patriotic decoration was devised around the time of the nation's centennial in 1876.  The shield is complete.  Measures 9 1/2" tall and 9 1/4" wide across the top.  
 
Good Condition.  A 1 1/4" chip on the rim on the left side with a faint 3" hairline below it as shown.  No inner rim or base chips, cracks, stains, or restoration.  Mottled glaze in the making. 
 
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