Item 10761
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful 1 Gallon Stoneware Harvest or Field Jug made and incised for "Nathaniel Coleman, Oct. 16th, 1871."  
 
Farmers occasionally received personalized harvest jugs.  These jugs have a larger spout for filling and a smaller one for drinking.  They kept drinks cooler while the farmer was out in the field. 
 
This one was made and stamped by "W. J. & E. G. Schrop" These brothers were trained by the potter Fitch Purdy and ran a pottery in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio from about 1871 (see F. Robert Treichler, A History of Northeast Ohio Stoneware, pp. 80-82). 
 
This beauty features a Rich Albany Slip Glaze with Bottom Stripe, the Pottery Stamp, and the Personalized Freehand Scraffito.  Stands 10 1/2" tall. 
 
Exceptional Condition.  As made.  No damage of any kind. 
 
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