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Flask
Glassware
Mold-blown glass aquamarine violin/scroll one quart flask with a plain lip. Obverse has a large heart shaped frame containing elaborate scrolls and at the top a large six-pointed star. In the space above frame where outer and edge ribs terminate there is a similar large six-pointed star. Broken pontil on bottom. Edges are have a heavy vertical medial rib.
2023.28.025
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Flask
Glassware
Flask
Blown
Molded
McKearin GIX-5.
1830 - 1850
9 in
5-1/2 in
3 in
Glass
American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry
pg. 617 (GIX-5)