Folk Art Mid-century thread spool and canning jar ring toss game Homemade Folk Art

Mid-century thread spool and canning jar ring toss game Thread Spool and Canning Jar Ring Toss Game. Mid 20th century Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb / Jim Linderman.

Sewer Pipe Turtle clay sculpture

Sewer Pipe Turtle. Mid-20th c. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb.

Small Sewer Tile Shoe with Daily and Button Pattern Folk Art Pottery

Miniature shoe of sewer pipe clay with a daisy and button pattern. Probably produced around 1930 if not earlier. This one is signed R U….. on the base, but kiln flaws have obliterated the last name. Only five inches long and too shallow to be a vase. It even has tiny holes for laces. Decorative. Small shoe sewer pipe pottery c. 1930 collection Jim Linderman.

Sewer Time Pipe Clay Factory Pittsburg Kansas c. 1914 Original Postcard collection Jim Linderman

The Sewer Pipe and Conduit Plant in Pittsburg Kansas c. 1914 A striking vintage postcard. Original Postcard collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Folk Art Skeleton Key Mid 20th c. collection Jim Linderman

An unsual form, a sewer tile skeleton key. Adamson's book illustrates a similar piece stamped "Uhrichsville, Ohio" but this piece is unidentified. Appears to have been made in the same mold and is an idential size. 8 1/4" long. Sewer Tile Skeleton Key mid 20th century collection Jim Linderman

Antique Sewer Tile Folk Art Pottery Head of a Man Collection Jim Linderman

Antique "end of day" Sewer Pipe folk art sculpture of a man. Late 19th / Early 20th century. Hand-formed, likely Ohio origin. Collection Jim Linderman.

Antique Sewer Pipe Paperweight Classical Head of a Woman c. 1910

Antique Sewer Pipe Paperweight Head of a Woman c. 1910. This is one of three examples I have found in the literature. A piece in Adamson's Illustrated Handbook of Ohio Sewer Pipe Folk Art shows the same form which is stamped "Nelsonville Sewer Pipe Company" but this piece is unsigned. Another is decribed as a Salesman Sample. Red Clay Salt Glazed. "Classical" Head of a woman sewer tile paperweight c. 1910 Collection Jim Linderman