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.

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