Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle vintage carving protective creature watching over one

protective creature watching over one

but not to the lid

as if Kosarek wanted to capture both the face and back of the head at once

or as snow shovels for dolls

featuring the name of one room of a house: kitchen

Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle vintage carving protective creature watching over oneA 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