Item 13272
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful 1 Gallon Stoneware Wax Sealer Canning Jar 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 a Top and Bottom Stripe that Frame\, the Company Advertising Intertwined with an Elaborate Patriotic Shield.  This was a patriotic decoration devised around the time of the nation's centennial in 1876.  The shield is complete which is amazing considereing there are over 100 individual dots in its makeup!  Stands 9 1/2" tall.  
 
Good Condition.  Chips around the inner rim and inside the outer rim. A faint 1 1/2" hairline from the rim on the right side and a 1 1/2" chip on the rim in the back as shown.  No base chips, cracks, stains, or restoration. 
 
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