The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album ) Of course a useful

) Of course a useful thing for the rest of us

very orange orange

warm honey tone to undyed bear grass

with just a little cracking/roughness  along the edges off the wood

and still bound

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers antique kindergarten album ) Of course a useful(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