From: Gary Tefft / locustent@aol.com
Location: Menomonee Falls, WI
Date: 11 Sep 1998
Time: 23:33:19
You’ve bought yourself a real prize. Winged fancy jugs are highly desirable and rather rare. None of the “brown-top”, wing jugs show up in any catelog that I am aware of, so it’s tough to date them, except for the fact that the one-gallon and half-gallon sizes have small wings that are usually associated with the 1930’s. ( the winged fancy jugs have been found in only one-galion and half gallon sizes that I am aware of.)
The “shoulder “ on shoulder jugs is useful in stacking inside the kiln (see pg 193, Red Wing Potters & Their Wares) The “utility “ of a fancy jug is in its pleasing shape.
-Gary-