Sewer Tile Sewer Pipe Pottery Antique American Folk Art Sculpture by Jim Linderman: Pottery

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Sewer Tile Folk Art Pottery "Grandpa Page at Kiln" Real Photo Postcard 1916 Ohio

Sewer Tile Folk Art Pottery "Grandpa Page at Kiln" Real Photo Postcard 1916 Ohio collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Pottery Dog with Leash Folk Art Sculpture c. 1900 - 1930

Sewer Tile Pottery Dog with Leash Folk Art Sculpture c. 1900 - 1930.
Unusual form with long leash, 7" tall. Collection Jim Linderman

Folk Art Bank Sewer Pipe Sewer Tile "End of the Day" sculpture pottery

A small handmade bank of sewer tile. Rough, etched "bark" and applied clay grape clusters. Slot for coins, but no way to remove them. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Pipe Sewer Tile Folk Art Monkey with Original Paint and Stamped Superior Clay Ullrichsville Ohio

There were apparently several dozen Sewer Pipe factories in the area around Ullrichsville Ohio. J.W. Moore comes to mind. This piece is incised with the company stamp "Superior Clay Corp. from Ullrichsville. Interestingly, the company stamp often indicated the maker! This piece appears to have been "Handcrafted by Phillip (Patterson)?.

PAINTED Sewer Pipe Pottery is uncommon, but this piece looks to have been, if you will, an "inventory" item, so there may be more with paint. The paint isn't just "slopped" on, it's well done. The date is unknown but is old. Mid to early 20th Century.

Sewer Tile Monkey painted by hand. Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Pipe Clay Devil with Horns

Sewer Pipe Clay Devil with Horns. Light color, Fine Clay. Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Pipe Folk Art Pottery Plaque of a Woman

Sewer Pipe Folk Art Pottery Plaque of a Woman. Red clay, salt glazed and embellished by hand. The border was formed by pressing a thumb into the clay. all the way around. This piece was made "commercially" in that a mold was used, but there is no way to determine how many were made. This piece was enhanced by the application of a pebble on the neck to represent necklace bauble. A similar example, sans pebble, is illustrated in Sewer Pipe Folk Art by Jack Adamson. There is a small, impressed logo of a seated potter under the woman's chin, but it is very hard to see. 9" x 13"

Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Antique Folk Art Sewer Tile Pottery Head of a Man

Antique Folk Art Sewer Tile Pottery Head. Found in Michigan, likely Ohio origin.
Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Sewer Pipe Pottery Folk Art Antique Match Holder with Incised Striker

Sewer Pipe Pottery Folk Art Antique Match Holder with Incised by hand striker. Stamped of Impressed "MATCHES" on front. Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Sewer Tile Pottery End of the Day Match Holder Tree Stump Ohio Antique

A rudimentary handmade sewer tile match holder. Primitive. It is surprising to see the company stamp "Armstrong Sewer Pipe Cincinnati" on the base. Normally, identified pieces have a bit more style. Unusual amateur adaption of a common sewer tile motif.

Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Pottery Folk Art "End of the Day" work by mastermaker Wilbur A. Baker Artist

A piece illustrated (along with others by Wilbur A. Baker) illustrated in the landmark book on Ohio Sewer Pipe Folk Art by Jack E. Adamson 1973 page. Adamson includes a photograph of the artist, and calls him a man who was "...most of all interested in pleasing other people with clay surprises." Adamson also claims "of all sewer pipe artists, he was the best."

Additional documentation appears as signed by the artist on the base. "Made by Wilbur Baker April 12 1941 Gnaudenhutten, Ohio.

Baker used light, fine clay for this piece which resulted in a smooth sculpture much refined over most rough and primitive "end of day" pieces. Gnadenhutten is Ohio's oldest settlement. Native Americans made pottery there first!

Sewer Tile Pottery Holder by Wilbur A. Baker 1941 Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Primitive Match Safe End of the Day Folk Art Pottery

Massive Sewer Tile (actually BUILT on sewer tile) match safe. Considerable age, with some embedded pebbles. Used. Unsigned, said to be from Pennsylvania. Nearly 7 inches long and heavy. A most primitive, fashioned by hand sculpture.
COLLECTION JIM LINDERMAN

Pottery Folk Art Salesman Sample Presentation Piece Eagle National Sewer Pipe Company of Barberton, Ohio 1895

Salesman Sample Presentation Piece Eagle National Sewer Pipe Company of Barberton, Ohio.

The town of Barberton Ohio was founded by O. C. Barber, the man who owned the Diamond Match company. The town was created in 1891. The National Sewer Pipe Company was founded in 1888. Fifteen years later, the National Sewer Pipe company was up and running in the town with 325 employees. Woked by, yes, immigants.

Barberton is shown here around the same time. It doesn't look like a happening place, but it was. Numerous chemical and clay operations were soon booming and the town attracted loads of hard-working folks from Europe to do the work.

The remarkable salesman sample (or more likely, a presentation piece?) can be dated circa 1895, as an advertisement they ran that year show the eagle on sewer pipe was a logo as well as a physical object. I do not know how many of these pieces were produced, but certainly few exist today. There is a nub on the left which would indicate the eagle's wings on both sides reached to the pipe. Note minute detail on the claws.

At the same time, they won an award showing the strength of their product and indication pipes went to Michigan. The ad also suggests writing for a paperweight. This piece seems a bit more substantial than a paperweight, but quite possible.

N. S. P. also produced small sewer tile toothpick holders. Hand signed piece also seen include a miniature ladies shoe whimsy.

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Abe Lincoln A Good President made of Clay Sewer Pipe Sewer Tile Pottery Folk Art Sculpture

Frankly, a quite remarkable small hand-sculpted Abe Lincoln made of unfired clay. It's OLD...certainly not as old as the president's life or death, but it could have been made during a celebration or anniversary. Small but powerful. Little over three inches tall with nice aged color.
Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Pipe Sewer Tile Pottery Bust Head of a Man Folk Art Sculpture Clay

Hand-formed, free hand Sewer Tile Pottery Bust Head of a Man Folk Art Sculpture.
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Original photographs of McMillan Sewer Pipe Factory Molina Florida 1914 Sewer Tile Folk Art

Original photographs of McMillan Sewer Pipe Factory Molina, Florida 1914
Sewer Tile Folk Art Blog. Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Sewer Pipe Folk Art Sculpture Spartan for Michigan State University?

The Spartan became mascot of the Michigan State University Football team in, I believe, not long after 1925. There is no indication this sewer pipe spartan figure was made in Michigan, but the Grand Ledge Pottery mentioned elsewhere on this blog was located a dozen miles from East Lansing, home of the spartans. Signed on the base "EJE" by the maker, and 4.5 inches tall.
Collection Jim Linderman

Cannelton Sewer Pipe Company Decorative Ashtray from Frankoma

Cannelton Sewer Pipe Company was founded in 1906 by Henry Clemens in Cannelton Indiana. They mined clay "from the hill east of Eighth Street" according to company history. The company lasted some 50 years, until being purchased by an industrial conglomerate called Harsco. They ran the operation for another few decades, but sold the operation when there were only 20 employees left in 1982. It is now known as Can Clay and still producing some clay products. They were known to make some "end of the day" pieces, including a drinking cup with an incised Indian Chief on the piece.

Interestingly, for promotional purposes, the company turned to Frankoma pottery for the decorative ashtray in "prairie green" above. Likely from the late 1950s, it was created in the "Frankoma 458 series.

Frankoma Cannelton Sewer Pipe Ashtray with Sewer Pipe raised portion. Circa 1950 - 1960 Collection Jim Linderman

Sewer Tile Sewer Pipe Pottery Antique American Folk Art Sculpture by Jim Linderman

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