Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle vintage carving There is writing in what

There is writing in what appears to be ink on one side of the box

but not to the lid

featuring the name of one room of a house: kitchen

or as snow shovels for dolls

Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle vintage carving There is writing in whatA 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