Flask, Pocket
- Object Name:
- Flask, Pocket
- Object ID:
- 1954.029.039
- Creator:
- Coffin & Hay
Glassmaker - Place of Origin:
- Hammonton, NJ
- Date:
- 1836-1838
- Description:
- Flask. Aquamarine blown and molded glass with pebbled surface; pint size, flattened ovoid body with tapered neck and plain lip. Front: American eagle left facing with wings open, clutching large shield with thirteen vertical bars across lower two-thirds in talons. Crossed laurel boughs beneath figure. Sunburst behind eagle's head. Reverse: Thirteen starred American flag unfurled and wrapped around standard. "FOR OUR" embossed in lower left corner; "COUNTRY" embossed in lower right corner. Nine vertical ribs around outside. Rough pontil mark on bottom. Paper label rectangular clipped corners red border 1 line: "900" with "00" superscript and underlined.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-7 W-4.9 D-2.7 inches
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Raymond D. Allen
- People:
- Allen, Raymond D. (1895-1953)
- Subjects:
- Eagle, Flags, Patriotism, Liquor
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