Flask, Pocket
- Object Name:
- Flask, Pocket
- Object ID:
- 1954.029.035.1
- Creator:
- Coffin & Hay
- Place of Origin:
- Hammondton, NJ
- Date:
- 1836
- Description:
- Flask. Aquamarine blown and molded glass;pint size, flattened ovoid body with tapered neck and plain lip. Front: American eagle left facing with wings open, large shield with thirteen vertical bars across lower two-thirds. Crossed laurel boughs beneath figure. Thirteen stars in semi-circle above figure. Reverse: Thirteen starred American flag unfurled and wrapped around standard. "FOR OUR" embossed in lower left corner; "COUNTRY" embossed in lower right corner. Seven vertical ribs around outside. Rough pontil mark on bottom. Paper label rectangular red border 2 lines handwritten: "McK 174 / 800" (00 are superscript and underlined).
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-6.8 W-4.8 D-2.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Raymond D. Allen
- People:
- Allen, Raymond D. (1895-1953)
- Subjects:
- Patriotism, Liquor, Eagle, Flags
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