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Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 4:38:16 PM   
jamus

 

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Status: offline 		I am trying to research an eagle flask for a mueseum. The flask has an eagle on both sides, is olive, and is only 6 inches tall! It might have a pontil, it's hard to tell. It has one seam running from the base of the neck across the bottom and up the other side to the neck ( Two piece mold?)  and the pontil only looks like a c shaped intentation. If it is a pontil it must have been heavily polished. The mueseum wouldn't let me take any pictures but it looks alot like this flask accept its smaller and doesn't have any words on it. I would like to know the date, rarity and any other interesting info.
Thanks for your help advance,
                                                James
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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 4:57:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is really one for bottlenutboy aka Spence but I'll give it a shot...
Hard to say with the limited info and no pic but it sounds like a double eagle half pint. mid 19th century. GII-86?  Lobey.

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:06:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is listed as a GIV-17 in McKearin's "American Bottle & Flasks and Their Ancestry". The "IV" signifies that it is part of the masonic group of flasks, the "17" is the mold. These were produced at the Keene- Marlboro Street Glassworks, Keene, NH in the 1820s. This is a pint flask with an open pontil base and sheared and refired lip. They are a beautiful flask but relatively common, especially in this olive amber coloration. Value is between 200-300 range.

Hope this helps.

Mike

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:09:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		that flask was made in keene new hamshire and should have a high value

great flask!

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:12:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Keene isn't the flask he's trying to ID, as stated in his post. But it helped me a bunch Mike! Gratzi!

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:13:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bottlenutboy

that flask was made in keene new hamshire and should have a high value

great flask!


don't you read these questions or do ya just look at the pretty pictures?

Rick.

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:16:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Rick! You are absolutely correct, it sounds like a GII-86. This would be a 1/2 pint double eagle flask blown at the Granite Glass Company, in Stoddard NH during the 1850s. Value would be around $150-200.

I actually have one posted on my website, www.bottleshow.com
It just sold yesterday, but the pic is up there. 

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:18:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		If your doing research (for) a museum, why wouldn't they let you take a picture? ???

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:21:42 PM   
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If your doing research (for) a museum, why wouldn't they let you take a picture? ???


At least he didn't ask how much

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:24:34 PM   
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don't you read these questions or do ya just look at the pretty pictures?


yes i read the questions, i just somehow missed the part about it not being THAT flask in particular

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 5:28:25 PM   
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don't you read these questions or do ya just look at the pretty pictures?


yes i read the questions, i just somehow missed the part about it not being THAT flask in particular


So you didn't read it? I'm confused

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 6:45:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the quick replys. I wondered myself why they didn't let me take any pictures. I think it's because the flash causes the other in the mueseum artifacts like paintings to fade. The mueseum is in Prince Edward Island, Canada ( pretty far away from where the bottle was made).

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 7:44:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yea how  much was that bad boy worth any way? 

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 7:52:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		corection to my last post: I looked at a map and new hampshire is actualy quite close to P.E.I. Alot of people from around here have relatives from new hampshire and it may have been bought as a souvinir by islanders visting with relatives in the 1800's.

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 7:54:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		How can you tell if the dump you just dug is new?  You post 50 MILLION PICTURES!  .... Some times I wonder about my self, I say self..whats wrong with you, NOT a dang thing I was born this way.

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 8:28:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		is everyone drinking on this site now???? seems things are going alittle strange any more. and oh how much is someones opinon worth. this is a bottle site right?? just asking ,matt

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 8:33:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I quit drinking 20 years ago, and if you cant say what's on your mind (no matter what site you are on) then, you might as well move to china  And start making some American Flags. Yea baby!

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 8:42:45 PM   
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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 8:47:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yea Matt Im sure...because now Im diggng booze  bottles not drinking them.

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RE: Eagle flask - 7/4/2007 9:00:44 PM   
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I cant even type one sentance without getting logged out.

I was going to say that " a pontil mark that looks like a C" sounds suspiciously like a key-mold seam

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