1/2 pint double eagle flask C & I

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Hi Bill, et al,

Awesome fish, Bill. Keep it fed for me.

I use Rogers bandwidth to ask these questions here rather than in person, for posterity.
Here is the flask I finally recieved after getting it slow boat from China. It is a clasped hands/ eagle flask, embossed on the bottom with L&W. It is a pint.

I was wondering why the 13 stars on it and why the eagle has a ribbon in its beak with what appear to be segmented fingers incorporated into it. Also, is there significance to the eagle having arrows in it's talons rather than a ribbon. Peace or war time, perhaps?

Thanks Bill.

Joel

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Eagle side. Would this be a Union Flask, and why?
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L & W..............Lorenz and Wightman, Pittsburgh, PA (c.1862-1874). A prolific bottle producer. This mark is known on a very large variety of bottles and fruit jars. Toulouse claims the mark may have been used from 1851 to 1860, and then again from 1862 up to 1871, which is the year that Lorenz died. However, Lorenz and Wightman was not officially dissolved until 1874. I know of certain bottles that exist with the L&W marking that definitely date as late as 1874
http://www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories/bottlemarks2.html

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No! wait, I think that fish has MY name on it! Nice catch! catch & release, kuddos!
 

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