Posion flask Half post method

[Oldmill]

Picked this up a few weeks ago from a collector in southern maine

Clear posion flask with hobnail pattern in a half post method

 

[Oldmill]

picture of the shoulder

 

[Oldmill]

close up of the lip. The inside of the lip is rought to the tough just below the lip all the way around it apears that they laid the flared ring lip onto this open pontil flask

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello and back to you again. This looks like an interesting bottle. I am not sure it would require the half post method of gathering. Is there any evidence of a seond gather? It would also be good to see the pontil mark in a picture. RED Matthews

 

[Oldmill]

Hi Red I just got done taking a few photos per your request hope it shows up well. The first picture is what left me to believe it had a second gather of glass. It is a ridge line at the shoulder just below the neck. You can see and feel it when you run your finger nail across it. Simular ridge line that are found on pitkin flask.

 

[Oldmill]

straight on shot of the pontil mark

 

[Oldmill]

Second shot of pontil from a slight angle. Is both pictures you can see the base wear around the edges. I look forward to your remarks and others on age of this bottle. Also picture of simular bottle that you may have in your collections

 

[cowseatmaize]

It is a ridge line at the shoulder just below the neck. You can see and feel it when you run your finger nail across it.

Is it even around the whole neck? I'm also doubting a poison.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Good Morning Jason,

Years ago I was taught at this forum from Jeff Noordsy (kungfufighter) when I was on a Stiegel binge that not all diamond patterned flasks particularly half post type were Stiegel in fact they were more likely to be of German origin. In studying your bottle and with a few more years of collecting experience it is safe to say the bottle is European in manufacture,old 1770 to 1810 and it is half post or double gathered when it was made.Your bottle seems to be a hybrid of all of the pictures I am about to show you. From Willie Van Den Bossche's book Antique Glass Bottles.

 

[Steve/sewell]

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