The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford is missing a piece along

is missing a piece along the bottom interior edge

Scandanavia and the U

I've had a couple of sets of Richter's stone/ceramic blocks

And I get especially excited when I find an early and rare boxed set of wooden ones like this

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford is missing a piece along(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