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She choose to break way from the old very simple designs of the beginning of the 19
century and decided to decorate in the highest relief like this and add a lot of cobalt and
a lot more interest to the crock. She wanted to I think she was showing a appeal to women
who where using these in there kitchens and they are much more appealing so ti was all
about selling the product so showing a highly decorative crock like this would appeal to
women in that period. So the unfortunate thing is that Marie Kellogg did not sign this crock
with her name because during that time period women where not allowed to own there own businesses
and they didn't get much credit for the amount of work what they did so. It is believe that
this crock actually decorated by her and signed by her what she did is sign her husbands name.
In this area is very highly desirable crock so this is a nice thing to try to seek out
but there would not be a lot of them that would be signed like this. The script is very
unusual to find like I was saying before stamping a crock like this is pretty a pretty general
rule of the thumb they you are going to see when you are buying crocks. This is very unusual
so something to look for, if you see a crock signed in script you know it has a lot of
value to it so those are some of the things to look for when you are collecting crocks.