The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album and still bound

and still bound

very orange orange

--feel so familiar

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

) Of course a useful thing for the rest of us

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album and still bound(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