12.5" x 7.5"

Crock is in very good condition, some wear and tear associated with age. Tiny lip chip and a few spider cracks. A little touch up on the front left.

Photos are an accurate representation of item.

Sold as shown.

*jug is going to be shipped double boxed.

** I can ship with pirate and refund difference if requested.

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"John S. Martin moved to another of his buildings, this one at the corner of Chambers and Greenwich Streets, in 1872. He retained ownership of No. 165 and continued leasing to, mostly, tenants in the produce or dairy business. One of these looked for a partner in 1875; although he was apparently reticent to reveal his identity. His advertisement in The New York Herald explained:

Wanted—A party to invest $2,000 in raising fruits and vegetables, at Port Royal, S.C.; advertiser has an equal amount invested in land and buildings; quality of soil and location unsurpassed; good opportunity for a gentleman wishing to secure a pleasant winter residence; the place now produces apples, pears, plums, figs, oranges, &c… Address N.E.G., 165 Chambers street

One tenant not involved in the produce trade was broker James E. Morris. Among his clients in 1883 was the wealthy steamship captain Thomas H. Morton, commander of the Pacific Mail steamer Colon. Before Morton sailed on Monday, September 10 that year, he gave his wife, Elizabeth, $3,000 to take to Morris, payment for mining stock.

Not only did Elizabeth leave the house on September 15 with the large amount of cash; but she wore (some might say foolishly) a diamond breast pin on her black silk suit, diamond earrings and three diamond rings. The jewelry, “over half of which was exposed,” according to her adult son Robert later, was valued at around $5,000.

She showed up at Morris’s office at around 1:00; but because her husband’s presence was necessary to complete the transaction, she left a half an hour later “in good spirits” but with the money. In all, she stepped onto Chambers Street carrying $8,000 in cash and diamonds—a tantalizing $195,000 in today’s worth.

Elizabeth Morton disappeared. The suggestion that she had slipped away was scoffed at by family and friends. Her neighbors told a reporter that she “has been known among them as a woman of the most irreproachable character. Her relations with her husband are said to have been most affectionate, and she has always been a good mother to her two sons.”

The Times reported, “The only theory which Mrs. Morton’s friends are able to form is that some one, tempted by the display of her jewels, or, possibly, being aware of the amount of money in her possession, drugged and robbed her, or perhaps took her life.”

The woman was found in New Jersey some days later at the home of an acquaintance and still wearing the same clothes. The money and jewels were intact; but the reason for her disappearance was unclear.