Can someone clarify my question on stenciled stoneware lettering?

[stumpknocker]

ORIGINAL: baltbottles

The jug looks fine to me. I have seen quite a few TOC jugs with similar style stenciling.

Chris

Chris can you please post some turn of the century jugs with this style of stenciling in which you are making reference to as I have never seen any? To the best of my knowledge all turn of the century jug have solid lettering. I’d like to see some that do not have solid lettering which are truly from the early 1900’s. Does anyone have a 1900’s without solid lettering that they could post?

 

[mtfdfire22]

man stumpknocker is probably getting confused. if their is any doubt then leave it alone unless you like the way it looks and you are buying it for decoration. always do your homework. this is a very old jug but the style still seems different than what you posted but their is stenciling on real antique jugs.

 

[mtfdfire22]

dont let anyone scare you away from something you like until you do your own homework, then ask for others opinions or you will get contradictory statements from everyone. hope the picture helps

 

[stumpknocker]

Man Nic that is a very sweet jug and does have a different type stenciling. So now I know of at least one other jug without solid letters. Thank you very much for posting. Is that one in your collection? Do you have any other jugs with similar lettering that you could post? This is definitely an enlightening forum experiences. Thanks you very for your input. Does anyone else have one that they can post?

 

[mtfdfire22]

that is not mine personally but one i documented because it is very very nice. it can be had for 650.00 but im not ready to jump into that. your welcome for the info

 

[diggerdirect]

Found this pic online, Albany NY has quite a few different 'stenciled' jugs as does utica ny also.

This one is on ebay now I believe.
Al

 

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[wolffbp]

There are plenty of stenciled jugs out there, but how many have you seen with White letters on a dark background?

 

[dollarbill]

I would guess that it could very well be early 1900,While I have no later stenciled crocks to compair it to.I do have and have handeled early toc stenciles that could produce lettering as such. I'll try and locate the stencile I dug.It was for a father and sons company I belive .It was one piece of thin copper,I also dug single letters which were copper also.Never no for sure though unless you tested the paint I would say .
bill

 

[stumpknocker]

Bill I would love to see a picture of the stencil you have dug with this type of lettering. Where as it is possible that this type of stencil does exist and was used at the TOC Brian brings up a good point how many jug have you seen with white stenciled letters? Do any one else other than bill have a copper stencil that would produce these type of letter they could post or does any have a jug in their collection with this type of letter with firsthand knowledge of it origin. As Jim said there are guys who make them now day and it’s hard to tell. It’s easy to pull photos off the internet but I was hoping someone had one in their collection and knew for sure it’s history. Even Bill’s idea of showing a TOC copper stencil is better than posting random pictures from the net. Thanks for everyone’s input on the subject but I still not fully convince and surly would be leery of any stoneware with white lettering.