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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)