Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle dutch sampler I'm forever looking for unusual

I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering--pre-dating the c

and retains a similar sort of tension

Both were opened from the top

but occasionally find one that blows me away with its charm and the care and craft invested in its making

It is signed on the underside but I can't quite decipher the signature

Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle dutch sampler I'm forever looking for unusualA 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