A second example today of just the sort of antique American stoneware that makes me happy - this a c. 1860s beer bottle stamped RK & Co Knickerbocker, which I've learned was a brewery at 130 W. 18th Street, NYC, with the RK standing for Robert Kennedy. To me it's the crooked neck that really makes it--none too common to find in such a pronounced way, and just perfect for a beer bottle, making it look like an absolute embodiment of drunkeness, and as if it endured a bar fight or two, too! All this especially good for a beer bottle bearing the name knickerbocker--a New York sort of a thing, through and through. Nice warm color, lots of irregularities indigenous to it, plus some loss to the lip that feels exactly right. Super.
9" tall x 3 1/2" in diameter. A chip or two to the lip incurred long ago, all to the good I think, otherwise just wonderful irregularities original to it.
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