For jugs and canners but not necessarily for milk crocks.  I had a stack of 7-8 milk crocks melted together from a waster dump in eastern Ohio that were stacked "ice-cream cone-like," and other waster material suggests that this was standard.  Also supportive of this interpretation is the lack of sagger or wedge fragments or flaring on the bases of milk crocks indicative of such supports.


Jim Murphy

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:56 pm
Subject: Re: Combination Salt / Albany crockery

> Stacking mouth to mouth   and base to base is typical salt-glaze 
> kiln 
> arrangement
>