Success To The Railroad flask

[beendiggin]

It should show base wear and usually high point wear.

 

[suzanne]

That's not a pontil mark. You can't have a mold seam and pontil on the bottom at

 

[bostaurus]

It is pretty common to have a mold seam and a pontil.....it would be kind of hard to have a free blown historical flask or embossed bottle.

 

[dollarbill]

Well from what I have learned this is most likely a very early Clevenger Bro Repo .80 yr old.That being said Its not because of lack of base wear or high point wear because there are quite a few historical flask out there that have none.There are a lot of old bottles that have none.Check the Glass house sales you'll see for yourself.The reasoning is that the flask is very heavy and has the the saw shaped horse mane.(Thanks agian Botlguy.)I took it to a flask collector who said his only concern was the weight.Other than that he said it could do well at auction on it own for what it is.Thanks agian all for your comments , replys and info.
bill

 

[kungfufighter]

ORIGINAL: bostaurus

It is pretty common to have a mold seam and a pontil.....it would be kind of hard to have a free blown historical flask or embossed bottle.

Spot on Melinda.

The flask is to my eye a Czech reproduction from the 20s.

 

[dollarbill]

Thank you Jeff for your reply. That would be fine too, make it 90 years old.