Looking for any info

[cacarpetbagger]

I have not been able find any info on this guy. Was wondering if any of you search gurus could come up with anything. Vorden is pretty much just a road intersection today.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Steve,

Very interesting piece. What's the backstory?

Chinese merchants they were, using what looks like an American jug.

See This 1913 Internationa Chinese Business Directory Listing:
"VORDEN

Ah Tin PO Box 73
Tai Sang & Co General Merchandise
TIN SAN CO General Merchandise"

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Well surface you strike again. This piece came out of a dump probably not far from where that picture was taken. Interesting that he is listed in Walnut Grove and not Vorden, they are very near each other. A fire burned the Chines quarter of Walnut Grove in 1915, they rebuilt in the town of Locke just down the road. Makes me wonder if my jug is before or after the 1915 fire. Of interest is a piece of another jug that didn't make it.

 

[surfaceone]

Interesting that he is listed in Walnut Grove and not Vorden, they are very near each other.

Hey Steve,

I think you may be speed reading that listing. I see them as at Vorden.

That dual direction shard is a head scratcher of what might have been.

Locke.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

I sure did. Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like Locke to me.

 

[andy volkerts]

Actually the first pic in black and white IS of Vorden, the second pic is of Locke. Vorden is about three miles from Courtland where I live, and Locke is about seven further down the same road. all that is left of Vorden is the road sign at Vorden road and River road, plus a few pilings in the river. There are a few old photos of both places in the courtland post office, plus they show up at the gymnasium on easels during the Courtland Pear Fair if anybody wants to see them. Tin Sang operated a general store in Vorden sometime around the turn of the 19th century...........cool jug by the way!!

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Thanks for the info, and I do like the jug.