Wallace Kirkpatrick (1828-1896)Wallace learned the pottery business from his father. Before he settled down to adult life, he went off to "see the world" by joining the Gold Rush in California for a year. When the brothers ran Anna Pottery together, Wallace served as the company's salesperson and the manager of its kaolin clay quarry. This part of the business dug out the white kaolin clay and sold it to pottery companies in other states.One of Wallace's pastimes was his collection of live snakes. He showed them at fairs and expositions to attract people to his pottery products on display. Wallace specialized in sculpted clay pieces like the snake jugs and stoneware advertising trinkets to give out at fairs. The trinkets included tiny hollow jugs and log cabins, mugs with frogs inside, and dog statuettes. He spent some years late in his life building and exhibiting stoneware models of pioneer farms complete with movable figures.
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