Flask or Art? New or Old?

[Owen]

Way out of my depth on this one. It is about 6 1/2 long and has a pontil on the bottom. It is cased over white. Is this old or new, was it intended as art or use? Anything you can tell me on this would be great as I have no clue guys. Thanks!

 

[Owen]

Bottom...

 

[sunrunner]

well it cud be contemporary,there are a lot of hot shops(glass houses), out ther,and some of this peopel do this kind of work.id say in the last 20 years,and you can use it .just fill it up with you favorit bevrige andkeep it in your pockit.oh by the way,it also is a nice pice of art,as all hand made bottels are to me. nice find!

 

[epackage]

Send Steve/Sewell a PM with a link, he will know for sure...

 

[Steve/sewell]

Nice Flask,old also 1810 to 1850,because after 1850 the flasks in the Nailsea style were longer towards the pontil. It is the English Nailsea type and the body style of the flask is called a tear drop. The ruby red color wasnt used for the most part in the early United States glass factory's for the cost was prohibitive. It is not to say it wasn't used at all but there are just not a lot of American made examples using this color before 1880. After 1880 the ruby red and other shades of red were used more extensively, however they were mostly used for back bar and Barber bottles.Your flask is somewhat rarer then the type of Nailsea most often seen which has loopings of alternating colors versus your flask which has a spattered look about it. Here is an example of similar decor to your flask on a rolling pin circa 1850 using multi coloring Nailsea type of decor......

 

[Steve/sewell]

The more often seen Nailsea decoration of loopings.

 

[Owen]

Thanks so much for the information! Sometimes half the battle is knowing the name to search under. Seeing the word "Nailsee" opened up a bunch of info for me on the history of what it is. Thanks again for the help!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[epackage]

Happy to se Steve chime in, I knew he would know the scoop. I had a feeling it was an old piece but I don't enough to be sure, but I learn from Steve at every turn....[]