A cute little miniature antique yellowware chamber pot sometimes a child's toy "thunder mug". This is a salesman sample with original paper label still attached.....yellowware pottery.....two brown and one white band around it....applied handle....footed base ring....2"tall x 2 3/4"across top rim......Excellent condition with no chips. Spot without any glaze on the interior shaped like a chicken. A shiny clean pot. Please read the news article from the Detroit Free Press in 1897. Werner Co. was destroyed in the fire.

Detroit, Oct. 7. 1897- The fire which began in the Detroit Opera House this morning did from $600,000 to $700,000 damage. Five large buildings and two smaller ones were destroyed.

The flames leaped out at the rear of the theatre, where a wall was blown out by the explosion of a calcium light. The Opera House faced the Campus Martius, and was obliquely across from the City Hall. Adjoining it in the rear the ten-story structure occupied by the HENRY R. LEONARD Furniture Company got afire in the upper stories. Next to the Opera House the large jewelry establishment of WRIGHT, KAY & Co. and the four-story building fronting on the Campus Martius and Monroe Avenue, occupied by the C. H. MICHEL Table Supply Company, also caught fire. The MICHEL building was gutted, and all its contents burned, but the jewelry establishment was saved.

From MICHEL'S the fire communicated to the large six-story building occupied by C. H. WERNER'S crockery house and the Grand Union Tea Company, which was burned. On the Gratiot Avenue side, the flames spread to a building occupied by the Central Storage Company and VAUGHAN & TANNER, which was also consumed. A side wall of the latter building fell upon the roof of a two-story structure occupied by the Parisian Laundry, which was wrecked and partly consumed. On the Monroe Avenue side, a small shoe store was crushed to fragments by the fall of the east wall of the WERNER Building.