historical flask

[bucky902]

wow thank you for your help it looks like i might have a pretty good one even being a reproduction

 

[Steve/sewell]

3. This is another good page to view.

 

[Steve/sewell]

ORIGINAL: 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.

Eric I wasn't saying ask Jeff if it is an original; you and I have determined that mostly you[]just the pint size as it is not listed in any books I own.