Vintage Sanford's Paste Crock

Vintage (early 1900s) Sanford's Inks and Pastes clay crock #150-52. A wonderful crock with good graphics and original hardware. Fine hairline crack on top exterior surface (see photo) and minor interior hairline surface cracks (see photos). An appropriate amount of crazing in glaze and no chips. Sanford's is still in operation today and founded the "Sharpie" pen we all love so much. See history below. Wonderful addition to a crock collection or simply as a unique home accent.

Measurements: Overall: 10.75"H x 7.25"D

Condition: Used/Good (see comments and photos)

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"Sanford started out in Worcester, Massachusetts, the project of two investors, Frederick W. Redington and William H. Sanford, Jr. They founded an ink and glue manufacturing company in 1857, known then simply as the Sanford Manufacturing Co. In 1866, the company moved west, leaving Massachusetts for the booming lakeside town of Chicago. Sanford's factory was damaged five years later in the notorious Great Chicago Fire, but it was quickly rebuilt. In 1885, the company acquired a patent on a "universal ink stand," a safe and clean container for opened ink. Sanford was a leading brand of what was then an all-important product. Business records and correspondence were all written with fountain pens in this era, and companies, schools, and organizations required constant supplies of fountain pen ink. The company also made other business essentials such as mucilage (rubber cement) and sealing wax. The company apparently did well, and when another fire destroyed its factory in 1899, Sanford had a new factory up and running a year later."