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A HUMUNGOUS Thank You!!! to a fellow member of the Facebook Stoneware Group I belong to. The jug was in Mass. during a sale and the seller was good enough to allow me to pick it up today in Rhode island. We were both hesitant to ship it, me because of it's rarity and the chance it could arrive as a stoneware jigsaw puzzle, and him because it's just not something he wants to be bothered with...
Henry Wardle was born in England in 1836, he was married to wife Helen and they had a daughter Minnie. He was a grocer who opened in Paterson in 1854 at the corner of East Ellison St. and Summer St., in 1879 he moved to 297 Van Houten which is directly across the street from his original store. He also sold liquor and considered himself a saloon owner, today the building is still a small grocery store with a few apartments above.
This is only the 2nd Albany Slip scratch jug I have ever seen or heard of from Paterson N.J., and the other was from Meyer Brothers Boston Store, a large department store in the city. As you can see it is as nice as the day it was made, it couldn't be in any better condition if I went back in my time machine and took it off the assembly line myself.
This is certainly in my top 5 stoneware pieces and I feel so lucky it found me, it will take it's rightful place on the top shelf in my new display...
Henry Wardle was born in England in 1836, he was married to wife Helen and they had a daughter Minnie. He was a grocer who opened in Paterson in 1854 at the corner of East Ellison St. and Summer St., in 1879 he moved to 297 Van Houten which is directly across the street from his original store. He also sold liquor and considered himself a saloon owner, today the building is still a small grocery store with a few apartments above.
This is only the 2nd Albany Slip scratch jug I have ever seen or heard of from Paterson N.J., and the other was from Meyer Brothers Boston Store, a large department store in the city. As you can see it is as nice as the day it was made, it couldn't be in any better condition if I went back in my time machine and took it off the assembly line myself.
This is certainly in my top 5 stoneware pieces and I feel so lucky it found me, it will take it's rightful place on the top shelf in my new display...
