historical flask

[Steve/sewell]

Bucky how tall is it exactly?

 

[bucky902]

reproduction

well i only paid $22 for it so i guess i paid for what it is thank you

 

[bucky902]

how tall is it exactly?

7 1/4 ins

 

[Steve/sewell]

Listen, this is not listed in Mckearins book of charted flasks. You still may have something more then you might realize.Jeff Noordsy who goes by the user name kungfufighter here at the forum may be able to help you further.

 

[Steve/sewell]

7 1/4 is a pint sized flask no doubt. The picture of Washingtons bust looks real good and I checked my Mckearins book again no other reference just what I had come up with earlier in this post. Maybe someone else has seen one.Will research it further.

 

[bucky902]

kungfufighter

how do i contact him on here ?
and thank you for your help

 

[cowseatmaize]

You can search him out but with the member search but there is really no need in my opinion. I just looked at your side angle and there is no doubt in my mind it's a reproduction. The rough, almost frosted looking texture, smoothing out to a tooled lip is in no way a period method for that type of flask and I can't see it being incidental. The only glimmer of hope I might conjure up is an 1876 Centennial commemorative but I'm not aware of any and tooling hadn't been common place then..
I personally don't even see it as an American made repro... Italian maybe.
The book that Steve was referring to is more that 30 years old now and I've made a bunch of annotations to it with new molds, sizes and a number of colors using just the basics, non of that strawberry puce garbage, just amber, blue, green etc. and that's not really paying much attention. It's fairly complete up to 1850 but there are a lot left out past that, especially the very small repro section.. Is there a better book that's newer? NO!
Regardless of real or not though, it's still an interesting piece. It may even be rarer than many of the "original" versions. They are one of the more common types.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Nice write up Eric........Bucky here is an original GI_37 aqua colored quart.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The same bottle side by side with a poor rendition from the Clevengers.

 

[Steve/sewell]

2. The Washington Busts side by side.