What do you think about this Flask?

[Indianabottledigger]

Thanks for all the info guys.... I will let everyone know what im going to do with it. Doug what do you think of this soda?

 

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[appliedlips]

That's a nice one too Nate. Charles Abel was in business in the late 1850's. The sided bottles are not rare but are very attractive early sodas and still bring a decent price. If you ever see a C. Abel that isn't sided don't pass it up they are much harder to come by. Did you dig that one? I remember pulling 3 pontilled sodas out of a hole in Indiana that turned out to be 3 different St. Louis pontilled sodas and 3 of the most common. If they had been from anywhere in Indiana they would have been much more desireable. Come to think of it, is there a common pontil soda from your state other than maybe something from Evansville?

 

[appliedlips]

The colors of the two on the left are incredible, Chris.

ORIGINAL: 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

 

[blade]

Chris,
Do you plan on selling any of those flasks ?

 

[J H Withrow]

My take is that even if you did pay big $, if you love it, and plan to keep it for a while, it's OK.

 

[Road Dog]

ORIGINAL: Indianabottledigger

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That color is alot more desirable than the norm for that bottle.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Yours look to be both key mold. The same goes for the ebay one. If you're digging yours I'd guess 1860-70 dump. The ebay one maybe slightly earlier. That doesn't explain why it got so much though. No glass house had the same technology at the same time but I'd guess the ebay one to be New England, yours could be somewhere else and later. The ebay one could be a smaller glass house also and didn't get the technology until later.
Some small glass houses were hand blowing glass in the 20's and 30's. That's long after ABM.
They're both great bottles but the mineral water is real nice.
My humble opinion
Eric