From: Gary Tefft / locustent@aol.com
Location: Menomonee Falls, WI
Date: 05 Nov 1998
Time: 23:12:53
Your jar is older than you think, Dick. I dates to between 1900 and about 1909. In 1906 the individual companies that sold thier ware under the name "Union Stoneware Company" merged. The name they took was "Red Wing Union Stoneware Co.", so you can pin it down a little closer by carefully reading the trademark oval to see whether the first line reads "Union" or "Red Wing". After 1909, the decoration was a red wing, until they stopped making stoneware in 1947. Red Wing Potters & Their Wares gives a detailed history of the companies and shows examples of the products offered and decorations used at various points in their history.
-Gary-