Extremely rare salt glaze twelve gallon stamped in cobalt blue "B.T. Stoffer & Co./ 12/ Lowell, ILL". Lowell Pottery was in business circa 1880s. This hand turned crock features a salt glaze exterior and a brown Albany slip glaze interior with two ribs that run around the piece near the applied handles.

The piece has had extensive professional restoration to the overall back of the piece. Still, a solid representative example of a rare Illinois maker!