Hello everyone, I will check in here daily also so if you have any questions about stoneware jugs, crock, or bottles I can try to help. My interest are mostly with New York stoneware but I do have books that cover most US pottery's.

~~~~Judy~~~~

Smile and the world smiles with you. ~~~Judy~~~

Here's some stoneware I have dug over the years (except for the 2 gallon jug & the small Owl figure in the center...

A big Welcome to all our stoneware and bottle collectors! I've linked to our Antiques sidebar and will also be doing so on Collectibles and Pottery & Glass. It would be lovely to get a good group together who share these interests. Thanks so much, whiskey-klectr... lovely picture!!! Daphne eBay Community Development -------------------------------------------- Click here to view our current Workshop Calendar.
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This is just a few of my favorite pieces.

Hope this wasn't to big.

Smile and the world smiles with you. ~~~Judy~~~

I hope this is the right place to ask this. I have some old clay pots that have been in a barn. I don't know any thing about them. Had one person tell their grandmother use to cook beans in them. So I hope you can help. Thank you! Corrine click here

Hello! Here are the bottoms, they are pretty worn. click here

CORRINE...I know very little about pottery & stoneware,but will venture an opinion:::::they look to me like a hybrid copy of yellow ware and the more modern Hull utilitarian pottery...form is suggestive of 1940's or 1950's. Is that circular motif scratched in the glaze? And are those scuff marks on the sides where the glaze is gone? Is that kinda chalky there? If so,can't imagine anyone cooking in them as it would be too porous. As for glaze missing (if that's what it is),that couldn't happen on the older US made stoneware or pottery as the glaze is near impenetrable. Also,judging from the drippy-like effect of the glaze,I would guess it was a cheaply manufactured or rushed product. Have to concur with Judy probably Made in Mexico.

Wow, whiskey klectr, you did it! Probably I don't belong here since you all know so much more about bottles and crocks than I do. I just know the basics. But I've been collecting whatever I could dig up for years, and then trying to learn about them. Nothing I have is as beautiful as yours. But I love the old medicine and food bottles best. I have one old jug,blue, stamped E.B. Taylor, Richmond, Va. that I found in a creek. It's probably the most valuable find I have. Just a small, rounded curve was sticking out of the water in the creek. I thought it was a turtle shell at first! I tell everybody I don't have a specialty area--I specialize in "whole"!
I think this board is a fun idea. I, too, will be checking it out often. Thanks!

Well, thanks! I subscribed to the Antique Bottle Magazine for several years--now there were some experts. Like Digger and Granny Kath. Are you familiar with them? I could never learn that much! I have answered questions on the eBay boards before, but as I said, just easy basic ones.
At least your jug was already missing a handle. When I was new to digging, I once got impatient and tried to yank a jug out of a clay bank by its handle. You KNOW what happened!

For those unaware: there are some magazine subscriptions available pertaining to collecting Bottles & Stoneware. One is published bi-monthly by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors organisation and is named BOTTLES & EXTRAS ...joining the FOHBC gets you the subscription... CLICK HERE FOR FOHBC

The other is a monthly zine published out of Pennsylvania by Jim Hagenbuch who also operates Glass Works Auctions. It's titled Antique Bottle & Glass Collector... CLICK HERE FOR AB&GC ZINE & AUCTIONS

Hi Everyone ~
I just realized that you started this thread! I'm glad you found a place to homestead....

I'm wondering if you could take a look at this old stoneware thread over on the PG&P board for us?
http://forums.ebay.com/dwd?50@@.ef95372 Thanks so much!
Janet

dateline: Jonesborough,Tenn. beginning Jan 11 and running through Feb 16,there will be a display of DECKER POTTERY at the Visitor's Center. $5.00 admission adults. Students & seniors $3.00. Charles E. Decker was born in Germany in 1832 and arrived in the US in 1848. In 1872 he purchased 100 acres of land on the Nolichucky River in Washington County,TN. here he began the manufacture of pottery. He operated as late as 1904 according to the article I have...probably longer. Here's a pic of his Family & some of their wares in 1904... DECKER FAMILY ... and here is a pic of some of the wares... DECKER POTTERY I'll be going down there one day to look at the display (which collectors from throughout Southern Appalachia contributed to)...and I'll take some pics and maybe pick up some pamphlets or other informative materials...will post additional info here for you to browse at your leisure.