Item 10504
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this uncommon Billhead from the E. & L. P. Norton Stoneware Company of Bennington, Vermont.
 
Edward Norton and Luman Preston Norton, the son of Julius Norton, worked together in the family pottery from 1861-1881 (William Ketchum, Jr., American Stoneware, p. 44).
 
This billhead has a picture of the pottery in the upper left.  The bill is to a J. M. Parker of Fitzwilliam, N.H. and comes from the 1860's.  The order form inclues pictures and descriptions of jugs, butter pots, cream pots, churns, preserve jars, fruit jars, butter pots, cake pots, pitchers, flower pits, stove tubes, Rockingham ware, dog handles pitchers, and tea pots.  Measures 14" by 8 1/4" 
 
Comes in a protective plastic sleeve.
 
Good Condition.  Some minor edge loss and some scattered feathering as shown.  
 
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