The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford all the better in person

all the better in person

She looks to me rather like a lioness

And I get especially excited when I find an early and rare boxed set of wooden ones like this

twice-- Tshi Mua and Tshibanda Muayabu--I believe most likely Congolese

made by the Vermont Toy Works company

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford all the better in person(First photo is composite showing two views.) I found this one in inland Maine a few years and have had it sitting around since, now here it is. A stoneware bottle, made for ink I believe, but then hand painted with pretty blue flowers on one side and "The Old Hilman House" August 1897 on the other, with what looks like three sets of monograms. I have not had luck identifying the Hilman House in question, but would like the think its inhabitants wrote