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Flask

Object/Artifact

Aquamarine flask, broken pontil. McKearin (GI-26), Quart, Plain lip. Obverse: George Washington, Classical profile with queue, facing left. Reverse: Large American Eagle, head turned to the right. Shielf with 8 vertical and 2 horizontal bars on the breast; wings partly raised and right foreshortened. Thunderbolt (3 arrows) in its right taons. Olive branch in left. Seven 5 pointed stars above eagle and 5 below. Edges: Heavy veritcal medial rib with narrow rib on each side and 2 narrow rivs forming outer edge of each panel.

2022.41.057

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Bridgeton Glass Works

1830 - 1850

Bridgeton

New Jersey

United States of America

North America

8-1/2 in

5-1/4 in

1 in

Glass

Washington, George, 1732-1799

"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson. pg. 529 (GI-26)

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