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Flask
Object/Artifact
Amethyst historical / pictorial blown glass flask. Pint size, heavy vertical ribbing on the edges. McKearin GI-71 Obverse: Zachary Taylor's small profile facing left, in uniform. "Rough and Ready" in semi-circle beneath bust. Reverse: Ringold, small prodile facing left, in identifcal uniform. "Major" in semi-circle above bust, "Ringgold" in semi-circle beneath bust.
2022.41.048
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Baltimore Glass Works
1830 - 1850
Baltimore
Maryland
United States of America
North America
7 in
4 in
1 in
Glass
Ringgold, Samuel, 1796-1846
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson. pg. 542-543 (GI-71)