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Could really use help in confirming ID?
Could really use help in confirming ID Jeff, I think I should, just to rule out any possibility.....and no need to apologize, but I do believe you are correct in that if one is unsure, one should take it to a professional who can actually hold it and see it in hand. Everyone did make...- Julie
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Could really use help in confirming ID?
Could really use help in confirming ID Thanks for all the help everyone. The glass does have bubbles, the flat (ground) bottoms are found on continental flasks, and were always considered to be far superior (read: perfect) to the colonial versions, and the thickness of the glass is partly an...- Julie
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Could really use help in confirming ID?
Thank you so much for the specific criticisms! I appreciate that. As for air bubbles, there are lots of tiny ones and a few bigger ones, but my camera doesn't capture them. I will (just for the sake of thoroughness) have my DIL use her great camera to take snapshots and then you'll be able...- Julie
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Could really use help in confirming ID?
Could really use help in confirming ID Thanks. I had read that The Met had made reproductions, but that they were marked. I assumed they would be marked in the mold itself, but this one isn't. If I may pick your brains a bit, why would you decide that, I mean, on what basis? I just want to...- Julie
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Could really use help in confirming ID?
I think it is possibly a Continental pocket flask as opposed to a Colonial one (because of the carving to flatten around the "teeter points" around the pontil, which I read was something to be found on British flasks). It is daisy within diamond over flutes in design. I have seen this flask in...- Julie
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- continental flask emerald green pocket flask stiegel style
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