KEESEE & PARR, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PARTIAL BROADSIDE, printed on light blue paper, being a fragment of an announcement of the firm's manufacturing of stoneware and a list of articles and prices. The broadside was cut and folded to create an envelope during the Civil War, a relic of Richmond's wartime paper shortage, the back bears two CSA Jefferson Davis five-cent stamps and is addressed to Franklin Davis Esq., Staunton, Virginia, sent by David Parr and is signed "D. Parr" at the left edge. Together with a carved wood-block of a stoneware jug, similar to the illustration used in Benjamin DuVal's 1817 newspaper advertisement. Two pieces total. 1861-1865. Block 2" x 1 1/4".
Published: The partial broadside was published as a digitally restored complete example in the article "The Remarkable 19th-Century Stoneware of Virginia's Lower James River Valley" by Kurt C. Russ, Robert Hunter, Oliver Mueller-Heubach, and Marshall Goodman, published in Ceramics in America 2013, p. 212, fig. 14.

The important collection of H. Marshall Goodman Jr., Richmond, VA.
Exhibited: Kaolin to Claymount: Demystifying James River Stoneware, MESDA, Winston-Salem, NC, October 3, 2012 to April 30, 2013.

Fragment lacking one flap from when it was published, block with minor loss to one corner not affecting the face.