Item 8287
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful Blue and White Salt Crock in the Eagle Pattern.
 
This beauty features a Rope and Tassel Top and Bottom Border that Frames "Salt" Embossed on the Front and Flanked by a Pair of Eagles in Flight Carrying a Shield with Stripes and Stars-- all on an Orange Peel Background. The lid repeats the rope and tassel border on the orange peel background. Measures 5 3/4" tall to the top of the hanger, and 6" wide across the base.
 
You can find a fine writeup on this item in Taylor and Lowrance's, Collector's Encyclopedia of Salt Glaze Stoneware, p. 130. 
 
Excellent Condition.  The base has a single 1/8" nibble inside the rim and wear on the inner seating ring from use with the lid.  That's it!  No outer rim or base chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  The lid as two minor 1/8" nibbles on the outer edge.  Otherwise as made.  Typical manufacturing imperfections.
 
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