Surprise find at a Farm Dump

[RIBottleguy]

I went over a friend's house today to look at a dump she found that was only 15 feet from her house. It was topped with screw cap bottles, but went into 1910-20s era near the bottom. I was going to be satisfied finding some fruit jars and BIM bottles, when I hit something saltglazed. I started to uncover a jug, and figured it has to be broken, as they always are. But, I uncovered the top, intact handle, and most of the body. I took a breath and wiggled it out if its resting place. It was whole! I nearly keeled over when I saw a beautiful cobalt slip floral design on the front. It was stamped E. Norton & Co. Bennington, VT on the shoulder. Since it was her family dump I insisted that she keep it, it might have belonged to her great great grandfather! Could it be?

Yes!!!

Happy new owner

Cleaned up

 

[MercenaryDigger]

Sweet find! Congrats!

 

[ACLbottles]

Nice!

 

[Macaco]

Absolutely lovely.Stoneware is nice too.

 

[deenodean]

SWEET !!! I have only found one so far, it has a few holes on it but it sits nice...did you find any interesting jars ?

 

[sunrunner]

this saltglaze stonwere jug is quite old,1850s to 1880s. hard to find in too gallon size.

 

[saratogadriver]

here's a link dating the markings on the Norton family business, putting E. Norton and Co. as 1881 to 1885. https://www.prices4antiques.com/blog/all-in-the-family-norton-stoneware-pottery/ Fun piece to dig... Jim G

 

[twowheelfan]

Nice one!

 

[Plumbata]

Nice work, and good on ya for giving it to her! Hopefully she will tip you off top more dumps in the future.

 

[Bass Assassin]

Fantastic piece of stoneware! Thats a great find! You won't see many whole ones that size come out of a dump. Hats off to saratogadriver for pinning down the date. Good work