Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle pennsylvania folk art embroidery or given as a gift

or given as a gift to a fellow student or teacher of the artist’s at the Technic Institute in Nairobi--the address of which is noted on reverse--who brought it back to the states

in pencil in the bottom right corner

a wonderfully unusual

which functions excellently as a frame for displaying them

including one (pictured first) with white paper adhered to the bottom as a correction or addendum

Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle pennsylvania folk art embroidery or given as a giftA 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