Help with dispute!!

[cyberdigger]

Hey, everybody!
Who has one like this, and what's the story behind the embossed scene??

 

[cyberdigger]

..trying to get a better shot...wish I had 3 hands!!!

 

[tigue710]

never saw it, you'll get a better pic with a more subtle back ground. There is too much going on on the computer screen and it interferes with the embossing... what does it say?

 

[cyberdigger]

I can't get any pics of this because it's too clear.. hey, does that qualify as an oxymoron? it says " HONEST MEASURE FULL 1/4 PINT NO DISPUTE ABOUT THIS" I want to let somebody else out there tell the story behind this depiction before I humiliate myself with my own theory! -Charlie

 

[woody]

Seems to be a dispute about the first person to discover something.
Maybe the North pole???

 

[cyberdigger]

OK...

 

[cyberdigger]

Here are a couple of images from which I think this bottle's rendition were inspired:

http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/peary02.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blypeary1.htm

 

[casperwhiskey]

Robert Edwin Peary
[size=+1]Rear Admiral, United States Navy [/size]
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/roberted.htm
First person to be given credit for reaching the North pole. Flask dates about 1909 to 1910

 

[appliedlips]

That's a cool bottle you have there.

I got a giggle because we refer to the slick waranteed and guaranteed flasks as hysterical flasks rather than historicals.Yours is actually very historical.I would imagine it is fairly valuable also.

 

[tigue710]

that is a very cool flask! There was actually a dispute as to whether he actually made it to the north pole, or just kinda took a picture at a random place, arranged his data accordingly and came back! I guess they almost or did get lost, and barley limped out of the arctic...

even today it is still disputed and I saw a show not long ago where they used the horizon in his picture to prove he was at the north pole. His original summit point is still lost, but the pole has traveled since then so it cant actually be tracked.