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Norton and Co. Two gallon with bird. One and one-half gallon with flowers. Bennington, Vermont, 2nd halfth century. Salt glaze with applied handle and freehand cobalt bird decoration, 12"h. Norton, Bennington, Vt. Norton Co. Norton, Bennington, one and a half gallon, and an E. Norton, Bennington, imperfections , ht. Research at its best We are here to help!

Our research tools include:. Find out more. In Luman Norton retired, and Julius took over. In Julius was able to add his son Luman Preston Norton to the partnership. These pieces bear the mark J. This partnership was to last a full twenty years. It was during this period that the Little Brown Jug was first produced. We know this for a fact because Little Brown Jugs were produced as souvenirs to commemorate the Centennial of July 4th, In Luman conveyed his interest in the pottery to Edward Norton.

Edward was now the sole owner of the business. Luman was smart to leave the business when he did for as good as the business was in years past, the role of salt glaze stoneware was decreasing very rapidly. The mark on the pottery at this time was E. From to the stoneware business continued to suffer. In Edward Norton sold half interest in the pottery to C. Thatcher of Bennington.

He was the first person not to be related to the Nortons by marriage or direct descent. Edward Norton died in , and it was then that his son of twenty years of age, Edward Lincoln Norton, entered the business.

Edward felt that the business would do better if it were to diversify. They became wholesalers in glassware, china and all kinds of pottery. On Dec. Stoneware production had ceased but the business now owned by C. Thatcher continued into the early part of the twentieth century selling stoneware, crockery, glass and lamp goods