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Anna Pottery Stoneware Railroad Pig Bottle,

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Anna Pottery Stoneware Railroad Pig Bottle, American, ca 1880s, by Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna Pottery, Illinois. An Albany slip-glazed anatomically correct molded stoneware pig bottle with hole at rear, incised hooves and facial details, incised on one side with the inscription St. Louis the future capital/Latest and Only Reliable Railroad and River Guide/with a little good Old Rye in a hog's---/By Anna Pottery. Remainder of pig incised with a map of the following landmarks: Miss River, C.A.& St.L.R.R., Bloomington, Springfield, Alton, O.& M.R.R., Cairo short line, C.& St L.R.R., Grand Tower, Cairo the Mound City, Anna the Jug City, Carbondale, DuQuoin, Tamaroa, Ashley, Centralia, Odin, I.C.R.R., G.B.I.C.R.R., C. & V. R.R., Vincens, Chicago the Corn City, Cincinnati the Pork City; 7.25" long x 3.25" high.

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