Another Tasmanian find from Warwick Oakman’s shop in Sandy Bay Road, Hobart. Now this is the stage that collecting becomes interesting – where will this piece eventually belong? In Tasmania with the growing ‘jug collection’ or in Brisbane with the other ‘china repairs’ collection. Well for the minute it resides in Brisbane while the photos are taken and this blog post is created. The potters mark on the base is in red underglaze; W with the numerals 8578, this shows it was manufactured at the Waterloo Works in Lower Charles Street, Hanley. The pewter lid is stamped T. Booth Hanley with a bright Britannia symbol – this is the give-away. Thomas Booth & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent Potters, Hanley 1872–1879. I’ve also sent pics to Andrew Baseman in NYC. Any one able to add further details please? The figures inside the 6 arches are all female and all different. Barbara thinks it shows the three graces (twice). Obviously well loved and repaired with staples, some doubled in the shape of a cross.
19thC ‘gothic’ jug with staple repairs joins the urban_archaeology collection Monday, Mar 21 2011
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Colonial timber getter’s handicraft – cedar puzzle frame Saturday, Mar 5 2011
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The only other one I’ve seen is in the Local Historical Museum at Goondiwindi, S. E. Qld. The men carved many hundreds of the same item and hitched units together into long ‘crown of thorns’ as in the museum piece or into puzzle frames like our one pictured. This items has the fragment of fabric and original mount and ripple glass intact. Australian c1850.
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