Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box This heavy plate with a

This heavy plate with a beautiful aqua green glaze and incised design of three whales circling around a triple spiral at its center was made in a limited edition by the United States Quarry Tile Company in conjunction with the Romany Spartan Ceramics Company in the 1950's

not much visible unless viewed from above

without a chipped or cracked block that I can see

I just love the look of this old sap bucket

Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box This heavy plate with aOne of two stereoviews today, both among my very favorites I've had. At first glance I took these for a cluster of button mushrooms, but a closer look, and the printed list on the reverse of the card, reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870." The compounding of the strange phenomenon that is hail with the fact of these particular hail stones having been captured as documents of a specific "Great Storm" before melting