Rare Vintage Watt 20-gallon Acorn Stoneware Crock

Description: Rare Vintage Watt 20-gallon Acorn Stoneware Crock - (1927-1931). Very Rare Vintage Watt #20 Stoneware Crock Acorn Logo and Handles - Circa 1927 - 1931 Produced for only 4 years and in excess of 90 years old this Watt 20 gallon Acorn crock is in as-is vintage condition. Crazing, chips, and hairline cracks are visible in the photos. Both handles are assumed to be original and are intact. Open to reasonable offers, but not interested in any trades. I would consider shipping, but I imagine the charges for shipping this item would be extremely high. Local pickup would be highly preferred. Pickup would be in Brooklyn. Text preferred, but email and calls are okay too. Stoneware crocks and preserve jars were used to store liquids, dry products, fruits, vegetables, meat, and lard. Stoneware of this type is hard to find and makes exceptional gifts as well as additions to private collections. Overall Dimensions: Height - 23” - Diameter - 19” - Weight - 80lbs Please review all pictures carefully as they are considered part of the description. Watt Pottery History: William J Watt was born in 1857 in McCluney OH. He married Almeda Ransbottom. At the age of 29, he purchased 80 acres in Rose Farm, Morgan County OH, and started the Brilliant Stoneware Company. In 1897 the buildings burned leaving only the kilns standing. Watt sold the property and moved to Roseville OH. Almeda Watt's four brothers formed the Ransbottom Pottery in 1902, managed by Frank Ransbottom, which employed 100 men by 1906. Thomas Watt was the superintendent and Harry and Marion Watt worked as jiggermen. William Iliff Watt, son of Thomas Watt, who at the age of 10 worked for the Ransbottom Brothers Pottery was paid 1/2 cent per hour. He worked 10 hour days 6 days per week. By 1921 the Watt family saved enough to establish their own pottery in Edison, OH, and purchased the Gilead Tile and Clay Works. Being Edison was quite a distance from the Watt family's home in Roseville, Mr. Watt sold it and bought the Globe Stoneware Company/Burley Pottery Company in Crooksville OH. In July of 1922, the first ware which could be called "Watt" was being produced. This early stoneware consisted of jars, jugs, Dutch pots, milk pans, churns, chamber pots, and mixing bowls. The ware was not marked and it is doubtful that any ware from this era could be identified and sales were entirely through American Clay Products in Zanesville, OH. From 1926 through 1929 Brush Pottery was the majority share owner of Watt Pottery. In August of 1926, George Brush presented the "Acorn" to the board and recommended it be used as a trademark. Apparently, the Acorn was too similar to that used by the UHL Pottery. In the early 1930s, the acorn was replaced by the Watt Eagle. Sales of pottery were good through the early '30s. In May of 1935, the Watt family felt a change was needed to place the company in a better market position. they decided to cease production of stoneware and began making oven-proof kitchen and bakeware. Source: Watt Pottery - A Collectors Reference 1994

Price: 850 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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