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Flask

Object/Artifact

Aquamarine mold blown flask, pint size, plain lip, broad sloping collar. Graphite pontil. McKearin GI-28 Obverse: Washington, small three-quarter view facing left, "Albany Glass Works" in semi-circle around bust. Below bust in two lines, "Albany, N.Y." Reverse: Full-rigged ship sailing to the right. Edges are vertually ribbed 3, heavy medial rib.

2022.41.046

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Albany Glass Works

1847 - 1851

Albany

New York

United States of America

North America

7 in

4-1/2 in

3/4 in

Glass

Washington, George, 1732-1799

"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson. pg. 530-531 (GI-28)

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