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What is this piece of crockery used for ?
It's in the shape of a teacup and has a handle. I've never seen one before. I put a one gallon gas container next to it for size comparison. It's about 7 1/2" tall and is 8 1/2" (on top) from side to side. There's no makers mark anywhere on it. I hope someone can tell me what it's used for.
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Is it a thunder mug?
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A very HEAVY chamber pot?...~lol~...
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Maybe a chamber pot, can you tell if it may have had a lid.
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Looks like the "pee pot" Great Grandma kept under the bed!!
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04/19/10, 01:38 PM
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Its a kitchen crock. Granny used it to save meat fryins in. Ours had the handle broken off when it fell out of the covered wagon coming out of Penn to Indiana. Mom also used it to sharpen her kitchen knives. Whenever one of her knives didn't suit her, she would use the edge of the crock to whet it on.
If it was empty, you might use it to give one of your youngins a "Crock Cut". When I started school in 1940, some of the kids were still getting crock cuts.`````````````````
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Walmart has flower pots that look a whole lot like that...
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whatever it is, it sure looks nifty, and the handle on it makes it better yet!!
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It is a coffee cup for people who LOVE coffee!!!
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I don't know how it could be a thunder mug or a chamber pot, even for a child. If a child were to bend one way or the other, while sitting on it, it would tip and make a, well... a pretty bad, ewww.... mess on the floor.
It may have had a lid. I took a good look at it and the rim isn't glazed and it looks like there was a lid, or something, placed on it.
Hmm... this is interesting.... Here are two pictures of the rim. They're as good as I can get in the sunlight this afternoon.
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I agree that it looks like the huge coffee/tea mug planters that they sell at Walmart. Looks a little unsteady for a chamber pot. Where did you get it???
Hmmmmm...you have me wondering now...
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Uncle Will,
Your wisdom and insight is inspiring. So many uses for a crock, so little time 
7thSwan, Emmy D, Oh "PLEASE" tell me it isn't so.
Suzy, I like your answer. This crock has been lurking in a cabinet in my dad's house for over 10 years. He didn't know it was there until I went digging into his kitchen cabinets for a lid to one of his small stainless steel pots. My stepmother bought it years ago (she's since passed) and just put it away.
Beaglebiz, yes, it's cool. It's so unusual. It makes me wonder who the maker was/is and what it was made for.
Shanzon, even though it's over a gallon sized cup, you might have the right idea about having enough coffee. Ohh... coffee... comfort beverage.
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Quote:
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I agree that it looks like the huge coffee/tea mug planters that they sell at Walmart. Looks a little unsteady for a chamber pot. Where did you get it???
Hmmmmm...you have me wondering now...
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It was bought by my dad's deceased second wife, about 15 or 20 years ago, and for some reason she put it in a bottom kitchen cabinet and never used it. I'm sure she never intended to use it and it was too heavy to hang from a nail on the kitchen wall.
I suppose she bought it because she thought it was a neat-nifty-cool thing to have. She was into old timey kitchen things that were becoming things of the past. I believe she wanted to have it because it was a fun thing she enjoyed having tucked away to add to her future kitchen she was planning in her mind..
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I 2nd the ideal coffee mug
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For keeping sourdough starter in. It would have had a porous unglazed lid to go with it.
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Paumon, would that be a lid with a glazed top and an unglazed bottom or unglazed top and bottom?
Wow! Must have been a bunch of people that the starter was making biscuits, pancakes or bread for.
Do you have more information about this? Please... do tell us what you know.
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Paumon, would that be a lid with a glazed top and an unglazed bottom or unglazed top and bottom?
Wow! Must have been a bunch of people that the starter was making biscuits, pancakes or bread for.
Do you have more information about this? Please... do tell us what you know.
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I know what Paumon's talking about, our father had one similar to that and used it when he was working as camp cook for a logging crew. It can be used for fermenting other things too besides just sourdough starter, or it can be used for raising or proofing small portions of yeast doughs but you shouldn't bake or cook anything in it or it may damage the glaze inside. The lid was porous, no glaze on either side of the lid to allow it to breathe.
That one you've got doesn't look like it has the same kind of glaze as dad's did. His had a lighter, transparent glaze on the inside. Your's looks almost like it's got some kind of dark enamelled glaze painted on it. Does it have an irregular shaped hole in the bottom? The picture has a dark spot in the middle of the bottom inside.
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It is Paul Bunyons coffee mug.
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Naturelover,
This is the only piece of crockery I've seen with the dark glaze on the inside. In the first, of the two pictures, of the rim near the handle you can see a dark spot where the brush skipped up out of the mug.
The spot in the middle of the bottom is a bump. There is no hole. It's as though the potter left it that way intentionally.
Thank you and Paumon for the information on the lid and the uses for the crock. Too bad the lid isn't with it. Oh well...
Sammy,
If you see Paul Bunyon tell him I have his coffee mug.
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Fla Gal, I see NL answered for me. One other thing I'll add is that although you can't actually cook anything in there, you can warm it up considerably (fill it with very hot water or put in oven for short while to heat it) or chill it to very cold (fill it with ice or put in freezer for a while) and it will hold the heat or cold for quite a long time. This makes it ideal for holding or prepping foods that must be kept warmed at above room temperature or kept very cold while prepping/serving them - for example raw egg and milk mixtures (egg-nog), ice-creams, whipped butters, cold puddings - or fresh baked or roasted goods, stews, etc. that need to be kept and served hot.
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