Green New England Style Half Pint

[CanYaDigIt]

Here's a flask I recently picked up with the idea of reselling it. but I don't know if that's gonna happen now. It's got the typical Eastern seam side shape, but in a very untypical color, and super crude to boot. You can see in the pictures that it is super whittled, like a lot of these flasks are, but the lip on it is the crudest I have ever seen. It appears to be blown in a hinge mold too, but I'm not 100% sure about that. The "mold seam" in the middle is a bit bold and I wondered if it was cut into the mold? Either way, it sure looks nice in the window!

It's the little fella in the middle of the group

Here you can see the color and whittle. Very nice[]

The base. What do you think? Hinge mold, or part of the mold?

Here's the lip, and I'll get to what I think is the coolest part of it and what makes it one of the crudest I've ever seen. First of all is the great drippiness of it and the uneven glass distribution.

Here is my favorite feature. It's a little hade to make out in the pictures, but if you look you can see where the neck of the flask was sheered off of the blow rod and the kinda just worked into the lip. It is still sharp and jagged. The glass distribution is so lopsided that the one side of the neck didn't ever get covered over, then it just got tooled into the lip. Very cool in my opinion. It makes it very clear to see the method of manufacture, like a bisected model almost.

 

[ajohn]

Wow love that color!

 

[JOETHECROW]

Aaron,...super little flask,..I love the color and the crudeness,..I'd probably hang on to it too.

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi CanYaDigit Aron; I think that little flask is tremendous. I like the sloppy glass under the finish and the top of the tooled finish sure has some strange hack marks on it. The picture of the bottom looks like it could have been made in a bottom hinged mold. From the picture I cant be sure, but if it was one half of the centering plug would have a rougher seam than the side that didn't come apart. I think the lower half circle is a little rougher than the top one. The bar mark is obviously a makers mark, that identified the bottle-makers shop that produced the bottle..
I need to point out that the cast iron mold was not whittled. People still use this term - and have for a hundred years, so we can't change some vocabulary expressions that have been used in early books and still used today.
.Thanks for showing your bottles to us. RED Matthews

 

[mr.fred]

That is one handsome bottle you have there[]---i would keep it too[].