Flask, Pocket
- Object Name:
- Flask, Pocket
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.046
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Pocket flask. Clear, colorless glass. Small, flat, round body, with narrow neck. With note: "Flask carried in inside coat / pocket - not in my family. / Bought at a sale in home / of a temperance crank in Dun- / barton - Papa said "Worth / the price." E.C.S."
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-4.6 W-3.4 D-1.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - People:
- Stone, Wesley P. (1833-1916)
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