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sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 8:10:58 PM    1926/07   Posts: 16 Joined: 3/4/2007 Status: offline I dug up  this crock on the job site I am working on along with many other bottles Is this typicaly refered to as a sand glazed crock? Is anyone familiar with this item? any info would be gratefully accepted. I think the turn of   the century house I am working on was built in the middle of a once had been dump. So far we have found 52 bottles in nice shape & many ,many broken ones. Thanks a lot folks. Regards, Ed Attachment (1) < Message edited by 1926/07 -- 3/10/2007 8:18:47 PM > Post #: 1

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 8:41:39 PM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey ed great find! alot of times the pottery is broken, atleast on my end, its amazing you found the lid also, not sure on the type of glaze  im sure wed all love to see a pix of the other bottles you dug mike (in reply to 1926/07) Post #: 2

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 8:55:11 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline I believe it's referred to as "Salt Glaze". Any early crock like that with decoration is a great find. I can't wait to see bottles. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to madman) Post #: 3

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 8:56:33 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Sand glaze is a rough glaze. Nice find. Greeat that it is intact. Lucky you. Keep digging and posting. What bottles did you find? Joel _____________________________ (in reply to madman) Post #: 4

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:01:55 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Sand is silica and the more you use the more sandy the glaze. The salt glaze Zane speaks of is probably a process called salt reduction or mixing in salt during the firing. It makes the glaze do wierd things because of the chemical reaction during the firing. If this is rougher to the touch, it probably had more silica put in during the making of the glaze. Joel _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 5

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:03:23 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline I absolutely love the hand glazed flower. J _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 6

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:06:18 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline My wife is a potter and she says that is a choice piece. Me thinks it old. Ep _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 7

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:06:42 PM    1926/07   Posts: 16 Joined: 3/4/2007 Status: offline thanks for the replies folks.. Would a guess of late 1800's be a close guess for the age of this crock? Ed (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 8

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:07:13 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Is there any id on the bottom? _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 9

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/10/2007 9:24:41 PM    1926/07   Posts: 16 Joined: 3/4/2007 Status: offline I have not found any form of ID  at all.No writing on it anywhere. Ed (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 10

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/11/2007 1:19:49 AM    richf   Posts: 379 Joined: 8/27/2006 From: Weatherly, PA Status: offline Nice find! I always wonder why people threw these away. What bottles did you find? Rich (in reply to 1926/07) Post #: 11

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/11/2007 1:35:45 AM    baltbottles   Posts: 930 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline HI Nice Crock it is what is called Salt Glazed Stoneware. During the firing of the crock once the kiln had reached the correct temperature the potter would shovel rock salt into the kiln. The high temperature about 2300 degrees F. was enough to vaporize the salt into a highly reactive gas, which would react with the clay creating a very shiny and hard glaze. I would say your crock was made in the Midwest around the 1870s Chris _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html (in reply to richf) Post #: 12

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/11/2007 7:52:18 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline The date could be hard to figure. I would look at the ages of the other findings at the level it was dug, give or take twenty years. _____________________________ (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 13

RE: sand glazed crock - 3/11/2007 12:27:48 PM    1926/07   Posts: 16 Joined: 3/4/2007 Status: offline Thanks for the input everyone. It is a cool piece. It is the only crock type  we have found amongst all the bottles,although we have found  many remnants  in a million pieces. Regards, Ed  (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 14

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