Lot 132: Ketchup and Labels

Estimate: $600 – $800
Price Realized: $1,829

Stoneware jug with brown glazed top, stenciled “Shakers Brand Ketchup. E.B. Pettengill Co., Portland, ME.”, (Note: a world’s merchant who sold Shaker made products as pickles, horseradish and catsup, c. 1880; see From Shaker Lands & Shaker Hands, Miller, M. Stephen, p. 113), crack above base, 13 1/2 h; Framed labels: “…Pure Cream Butter…East Cantebury, N.H.”, 4″ x 5 1/8″; Two labels – “Fresh Tomatoes. First Quality…South Family Shakers, West Albany, R.F.D.”, and “Shakers’ String Beans…D.C. Brainard, Mount Lebanon, Col. Co., N.Y….”, 14″ x 4 1/2″ (sight), both finely framed and matted; Advertising card, “Shaker Society manufacturers and dealers in Ladies Work Baskets, Gifts, Souvenirs, P.A. Stickney, Sabbathday Lake, Maine”, 6 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ framed; (from a midwestern collection).