Flask, Pocket
- Object Name:
- Flask, Pocket
- Object ID:
- 1965.013.246
- Creator:
- Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works
- Place of Origin:
- Keene, NH
- Date:
- 1815-1841
- Description:
- Flask - Olive blown and molded glass. Flattened, ovoid body with curved shoulder and flared neck. Embossed with masonic symbols on front. Twenty-two paving bricks beneath two columns surmounted with an arch and keystone. All-seeing eye, open book with square and compasses, and radiant triangle beneath arch. Comet to right and above, crescent moon faces upwards, small stars around arch. Scythe pointing left beneath crossbones and skull, trowel and blazing sun. Reverse: American eagle, head to right, wings partly raised, grasping large balls in talons.Plain ribbon above eagle. Oval beneath eagle. Vertical mold seam. Rough pontil mark on bottom. Oval paper label with undistinguishable characters.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-6.5 W-3.4 D-2.1 inches
- Credit Line:
- Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Rogers Collection, Gift of Josephine P. Rogers
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