Item 7595
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Gorgeous 3 Gallon Jar made by "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). 
 
Dating to the 1870's, this beauty features a Finely Tooled Rim, Applied Handles with Cobalt Accent, Top and Bottom Wide Stripes, and the Company Advertising in Bold Letters Surrounding a Center Rose and Framed by Leaves at the top and a Row of Circles Below, with the Capacity Number Flanked by Leaves at the Bottom.  Stands 13 1/2" 
 
Good Condition.  A 3/4" chip on the right handle (closeup 1), a faint 6" vertical hairline from below the m in Hamilton to the leaf to the left of the capacity number (closeup 2), and a faint Y surface line on the bottom.  No rim or base chips, stains, or restoration.  Slightly out of round in the making. 
 
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