The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album ) man in his hat

) man in his hat on his horse out in the land with smoky looking sky sure does

warm honey tone to undyed bear grass

and still bound

because they're infinitely useful

with just a little cracking/roughness  along the edges off the wood

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album ) man in his hat(First photo is composite showing two views.) I found this one in inland Maine a few years and have had it sitting around since, now here it is. A stoneware bottle, made for ink I believe, but then hand painted with pretty blue flowers on one side and "The Old Hilman House" August 1897 on the other, with what looks like three sets of monograms. I have not had luck identifying the Hilman House in question, but would like the think its inhabitants wrote