What do you think about this Flask?

[Indianabottledigger]

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[blade]

Can you post some more pictures ?

 

[Indianabottledigger]

I do take requests! [] HOW MANY MORE WOULD U LIKE!

ORIGINAL: blade

Can you post some more pictures ?

 

[donalddarneille]

Wow! I do love my odd colored and crude flasks, but could never imagine paying that much for one that is unembossed! I've got odd colors, so crude they can't stand up, so full of inclusions and folds they shouldn't have formed, pot stones on top of glass snought, and tons of bubbles with none breaking the surface...... those that I did not dig cost me less than $50 bill. The one in the auction I'ld be suspicious of unless I could hold it in hand and view it through natural light, I would suspect that your bottle has about the same amount of air inclusions within it, and if so I'ld be willing to pay a bit more than average for it..... but WOW! Let me know if I'm missing something in the description, or did this seller get really lucky?

Apologies in advance if I am stepping on anyones toes, but I just can't believe the final price on this one...........

And..... please... please... please! if you want to part with that beauty, let me know!

 

[botlguy]

Both your flask and the one sold on eBay are fine looking old, 1860 - 1870, liquor flasks that I would attribute to possibly Stoddard, N.H.. That's just the look I am familiar with. The one on eBay has a bit unusual collar which might be of special interest to a specialist thus perhaps worth a bit of a premium. However, I agree that final price on the eBay item is about 5 times what I believe it is worth. I believe yours is worth in the $50 - $75 range, it is a choice example.

I don't know what else to say about it other than I admire it a lot. That is neat kind of stuff.

 

[donalddarneille]

ORIGINAL: botlguy

I don't know what else to say about it other than I admire it a lot. That is neat kind of stuff.

I agree, and wow, it is a wonderful example! If I wasn't so attached to my flasks it would make me wish I had a few of 'em up for bid this week!

By the way.... did I mention I REALLY like strap sided and knife edged union ovals?

 

[sandchip]

Sweet!

 

[appliedlips]

Great flask Nate. I'd agree that yours is worth in the $50-$75 range maybe a bit more. I don't think either can be positively attributed to stoddard as these seam sided flasks were produced at most glasshouses in the Mid Atlantic and New England regions. Your flask most closely resembles ones I've seen from Lyndeboro,Nh. although they are typically not quite as crude. The auctioned flask sold high but had an odd lip treatment for these flasks and I thought it would have sold in the $150 range. Regardless, yours is a great bottle and would look great in a sunny window.

 

[junkyard jack]

Very nice flask with a ton of glass charactor. Love the bubble "rain" in the glass.

 

[baltbottles]

I agree with Doug on the price but that flask did have a very odd lip treatment. Usually it takes a good color to make the prices of these seam sided flasks to go over $100. And as Doug said most glasshouses made similar flasks. Here's a picture of 3 that I recently dug in Philadelphia. They were likely blown there or at a New Jersey glass house in the 1860s.

Chris