Flask, Pocket
- Object Name:
- Flask, Pocket
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.136
- Creator:
- Volry
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- circa 1866
- Description:
- Glass flask with pewter base and leather top. Glass container; top encased in Cordovan-colored leather; metal screw cap with cork liner; removable metal base (to be used for drinking). Paper label, white with red border, on glass portion of flask (ripped): "_OE/1.50". Manufacturer's marks: metal cap (top): "M. VOLRY'S PATENT SEPT. 25, 1866"; glass flask (bottom): "OLRY Co/PHILADA".
- Material:
- Glass
Metal
Leather - Dimensions:
- H-6.2 W-3 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Vaughan, Dorothy M. (1904-2004)
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