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Flask

Flask

 
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Object Name: 
Flask
Department
American
Maker(s)
Willington Glass Works, Maker
Place Made: 
United States, CT, West Willington
Date: 
about 1850-1872
Color
AAT
olive green
Technique
AAT
blow molding
Material
AAT
green glass
Dimensions: 
Quart
Accession Number: 
50.4.414
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Flask. Bottle glass, shaded olive-green; blown-molded; long ellipsoid body, cylindrical neck with wide flat sloping collar; molded relief decoration -- obverse: "LIBERTY" above large American Eagle with shield on breast and perched on an oval of laurel leaves; reverse: "WILLINGTON" in semicircle above "GLASS CO.", "WEST WILLINGTON" in semicircle above "CONN"; smooth base.
Inscription
WILLINGTON; GLASS CO.; WEST WILLINGTON; CONN
inscription
:
Pressed reverse
LIBERTY
inscription
:
Pressed obverse
Provenance
McKearin, George S., Source
1950-07-31

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Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 4, left; BIB# 22375

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