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Flask
Object/Artifact
Eagle - Flag and "For Our Country" Historical Flask. Aquamarine, sheared mouth - pontil scar, pint size. Designs on oval panels, American Eagle: head, shoulders and wings only; resting on a large shield. Eagle's head turned to left; wings partly raised and dropping parallel with each side of the shield. Shield with 7 wide bertical bard and very narrow horizontal bars above. Beneath shield crossed olive and palm branches. On the other side is the United States Flad with 20 small stars furled on standard. In semicircle below flag, "For Our Country" McKearin: GII-52
2022.41.060
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Coffin and Hay Manufactory
1840 - 1860
Hammonton
New Jersey
United States of America
North America
7 in
4-3/4 in
1 in
"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson. pgs. 568-569 (GII-52)