The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass works half pint flask.

[Steve/sewell]

Number 11

 

[Steve/sewell]

Number 12

 

[Steve/sewell]

Last one,It looks as though the bottle is on fire on the inside does'nt it.The color of this flask matches exactly to a lot of the Booz bottles in my collection

 

[Steve/sewell]

Here is the link corrected One of the brackets got in the way making the original link useless.

http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/whitney1861patent.pdf

 

[Steve/sewell]

Woody, can you by editing this post the sixth page down get rid of the ) character in the initial link http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/whitney1861patent.pdf )
this ) character prevents the link from working. I have corrected it in the last post number 13 but most people will try the top one first.Thanks Steve

 

[RedGinger]

Is that similar to the internal gravitational stopper? Neat bottle and stopper, Steve and Lobes.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Hey Rich we have another thing in common now besides bromo's[],seriously nice bottle ,the Whitney glass works made some of the best looking amber bottles imaginable.This flask is rare though I am not kidding,you dont see to many of these half pint or pint versions ever.You have a quart version with an internal thread very nice.This bottle was one of the first I seeked out when I seriously started to collect again.When I was a kid I used to walk 6 miles to the grounds where the Whitney glass works were located.you could find so many bottles and so much glass digging an area the size of two football fields thats how large the works were.I gave away so many bottles I found to this nice old man that collected.He was handicapped and could not dig so it was the least I could do. Thanks for sharing your picture.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Interesting history and glass,...real nice flasks guys! Steve,...I like your story of walking to the glass works,...What type of bottles were you finding there at that time?I'll bet some great stuff !....Laur,...the gravitational stopper looks more like this pic I borrowed from "Mr. Bottles" website,...a glass rod type stopper that pulled up into a rubber grommet in the neck of the bottle, rather than screwing into the neck....

 

[Steve/sewell]

Joe we found a lot of Whiskey bottles 1850 to 1880,lots of medicine slick's,pieces of Booz bottles never whole,bitters,Mason jars like you would not believe.The glass works were enormous in size 700x700 feet when they built an A&P super market on the properly in 1972 the construction alone was yielding a good 100 bottles a day on weekends for a month straight.And yes they were all hand blown.In the town I grew up in there was a man Mr Gant who in 1970 was 75 years old.He grew up in Glassboro two blocks from the Whitney works.His father worked at the works from 1880 at the age of fifteen until it closed as a gaffers helper and remembered seeing all these great bottles we desire now.Mr. Gant owned an antique store in town and we used to take him our bottles we dug and he would pay us a somewhat fair market value in the day.As our friendship grew he took myself and a digging buddy of mine to the Whitney Glass works which were only 6 miles away.Mr.Gant remembered the glass works quite well, for as in his youth they were still producing glass and did not close until 1912.We would literally fill his back compartment of his station wagon to the gills on a Saturday and Sunday just walking around the site.We kept the ones we really liked and the rest went to Mr. Gant.We were the only non construction related people allowed on the site because of Mr. Gants political and business connections in Glassboro at the time.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The Quart whiskeys are a lot more common Rich,but still you have a nice match to go with your rare half pint.Your quart whiskey has the three piece mold dimple on the base.This puts your bottle in the 1860 to 1870 time frame.From 1870 to 1900 the Whitney glass works were the largest in the world.Here are a couple of pictures of the factory,a painting and a real photo from 1908.You can see the telephone poles in the real photo.The distance between them is 100 feet with 60 feet on each side of them.That is the main factory building which had 18 furnaces alone in it.There were at least five other buildings with multiple furnaces in them. If you look at the next picture drawing you can see the shear enormity of the works.The main building and its tallest tower are a small portion of the entire factory.