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Posted 3 years ago
Postedbyme
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I've had this old crock a long time. been using it as a pencil cup. Finally found out what it says on the bottom because it was hard to read. It has a chip on the side like it might have had a bail at one time. Anybody know about this?
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Hi, Postedbyme. :-)
Cool crock.
As it turns out, CW user AnythingObscure posted one a couple years back:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/283936-small-wm-p-hartleys-crock
the incised info on his reads "NOT GENUINE UNLESS BEARING WM. P. HARTLEY LABEL."
I'll add the link in his post here to make it clickable:
https://www.hartleysfruit.co.uk/about-us/
Here's another at Worthpoint:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wmp-hartleys-stoneware-jam-jar-479475871
FYI, I saw quite a few Wm. P. Hartley crocks out there, but none with wire bails, or holes to accommodate one.
Thank you for the info. It took me forever to find out the wording on the bottom. It's such a rough piece of crockery that I didn't figure it was much good, but I see lots of them for sale now. Go figure.
Postedbyme, You're welcome. :-)
Yeah, it's easy to find others once you know what the name is, huh? };-)
I can see how difficult it would have been to decipher the wording on yours, because it's not at all clear.
Yours also has what looks like a little logo at the bottom, whereas AnythingObscure's doesn't. I wonder which is the older one.
The issue of sealing the contents still had me curious, so I looked around some more. It looks like some kind of cloth or paper covering secured by string, and there was a concern about moisture evaporation:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-an-appealing-!-advertorial-postcard-for-hartleys-orange-marmalade-105391321.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1926-uk-magazine-hartleys-jam-advert-167051091.html
The latter image comes from a periodical with a date of December 11, 1926, so the crocks were still in production at that time.
A more in-depth piece about Wm. P. Hartley and his business:
http://letslookagain.com/2015/02/sweet-success-a-history-of-hartleys-jam/
Ugh. I found out that the link to the circa 1910 Hartleys postcard at Alamy doesn't work, probably because of the exclamation point character. Very annoying. Let's try it this way:
https://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?imgt=0&qt=G3CYKN