Plumbata
Well-Known Member
Apparently Piggott arrived in the Cripple Creek area in 1893, and died in England in 1899. He was a miller by trade.
I keep looking at the close-up, and want to believe, but it just doesn't add up. I don't care how many "advanced" collectors say that it is real, or how many books it is listed in, because I can find "advanced" academics who will swear up-and-down that the earth was created by God in 7 days, about 6,015 years ago, and reference books which claim the Earth is hollow and the source of all UFOs. Deep belief and wishful thinking do not equate objective reality.
The only possibility I can come up with which would support it's being "real" is if this miller Piggott had some stencils he used to mark his barrels (both white and red paint was used on barrels) which contained his milled products. Perhaps he had a side business of fermenting grains and distilling the product (or he just repackaged a few barrels of spirits on the side), and he used his barrel stencils, White Lead paint on dark unmarked jugs and Red paint on lighter colored jugs to create a few pieces of his own to prevent the undue loss of his containers. Maybe he didn't want to lay out the cash for it to be done professionally by a pottery firm.
It is plausible, but I would think that the paint would look a bit less "fresh" after 112+ years than it appears. It is more likely that someone several decades ago found his stencil(s) and used them to mark Jugs with Old Stock paints for fun, or just entirely fabricated the stencils for use in the creation of whimsical items.
I dunno really, but the stenciling looks like paint to me. Someone prove to me how it isn't paint and I'll concede my position. If it is indeed paint, then the authenticity is dubious at best. For now, I'll be keeping that 500. [
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I keep looking at the close-up, and want to believe, but it just doesn't add up. I don't care how many "advanced" collectors say that it is real, or how many books it is listed in, because I can find "advanced" academics who will swear up-and-down that the earth was created by God in 7 days, about 6,015 years ago, and reference books which claim the Earth is hollow and the source of all UFOs. Deep belief and wishful thinking do not equate objective reality.
The only possibility I can come up with which would support it's being "real" is if this miller Piggott had some stencils he used to mark his barrels (both white and red paint was used on barrels) which contained his milled products. Perhaps he had a side business of fermenting grains and distilling the product (or he just repackaged a few barrels of spirits on the side), and he used his barrel stencils, White Lead paint on dark unmarked jugs and Red paint on lighter colored jugs to create a few pieces of his own to prevent the undue loss of his containers. Maybe he didn't want to lay out the cash for it to be done professionally by a pottery firm.
It is plausible, but I would think that the paint would look a bit less "fresh" after 112+ years than it appears. It is more likely that someone several decades ago found his stencil(s) and used them to mark Jugs with Old Stock paints for fun, or just entirely fabricated the stencils for use in the creation of whimsical items.
I dunno really, but the stenciling looks like paint to me. Someone prove to me how it isn't paint and I'll concede my position. If it is indeed paint, then the authenticity is dubious at best. For now, I'll be keeping that 500. [
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