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repro? - 3/23/2005 10:18:44 AM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Does this base look suspiciously like a reproduction o.p.? It is posted on ebay as an 1850's era flask with a severe crack... Yet the current bid is over $50... WOW!!! Ron Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: repro? - 3/23/2005 12:16:39 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6684 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline looks real to me Ron, I've seen pontils in all shapes and sizes. Ever been to one of Heckler's auctions? You can sometimes get a better deal there than on ebay and there all quality bottles. Rich. (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 2

RE: repro? - 3/23/2005 12:40:15 PM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Maybe, Rich... But, to me, it looks like those fake O.P.'s on the repro Booze bottles... Ron (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 3

RE: repro? - 3/23/2005 2:30:59 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6684 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Ron, found that listing on the bay. That's the real macoy. Masonic / Seeing Eye isn't it? Too bad about the crack $400 bottle mint. With that much damage though, I personally wouldn't touch it. Got the newbies bidding on it at the moment. Rickadoo. (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 4

RE: repro? - 3/23/2005 3:01:48 PM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Rickadoo... If you have Jim Megura's bottle book (2000), turn to page 302. There (Reproduction Bottle section) bottom left, is a photo of said Masonic/Eagle with the caution:"...some very good copies here." For my money (and believe me, I'm keeping it in my pants on this one!), that sucka is a bit off... Ron (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 5

RE: repro? - 3/24/2005 10:35:00 AM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline I asked for and got a straight-on photo of the base (I'll post it when I get home)... It isn't as fake-looking as I had thought... Still, it could be a repro and that massive crack! (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 6

RE: repro? - 3/24/2005 5:20:04 PM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Photo as promised... Attachment (1) (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 7

RE: repro? - 4/23/2005 12:40:43 AM    whiskeyman Posts: 2414 Joined: 4/17/2005 Status: offline The Masonic/Eagle flask Megura refers to is not this flask but the JP variation, I believe...It was made in Italy for Old Sturbridge Village gift shop in 1964 and was still being reproduced as of 1978.. A more recent repo is machine made....and occurs in at least one color I am aware of : a pale blue. The book <U> American Bottles & Flasks & Their Ancestry </U> by McKearin-Wilson makes no note of a Seeing Eye/Masonic repo. (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 8

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