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Question:
this is a 3 gallon cider jug with original cork inscribed as follows Sweet apple cider Yorkshire blend K&H 1885 saint Paul It is in excellent condition Looks to be red wing Would love to know the approx value Jean
Answer: Jean, I have seen your photo and what you have is a Red Wing 3 gallon hand turned water cooler with the Sweet Apple Cider Advertising from ST Paul. Now for the good & maybe bad news. Bad news first. I have never seen this adverting before, which makes me believe that the advertising could very well be fake. To see if this advertising is fake, I want you to take a knife to the corner of the advertising and see if it scrapes off. Also, you can take paint stripper and apply it to the advertising and see if it comes off. Both of these methods will not hurt your cooler or the advertising if the advertising is real and under the glaze. There has been a large number of fake advertising applied to Red Wing and other stoneware and they have done an excellent job of applying them. So you need to do this if you plan on selling it or you could find yourself with a 300 pound collector with their hands around your neck if they buy it and it is fake!!! Here is the good news and the reason when those huge hands that could end up around your neck. If your 3 gallon hand turned cooler is for real and in perfect condition, the value is between $6500 & $7000. This is the best adverting cooler I have seen and the ad fills the entire front. Red Wing collectors would love to add this piece to their collection. One heck of a piece!!!!!!!!!!! Al Kohlman