Antique glass CALABASH BOTTLE Mid 1800's OPEN PONTIL Qt
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Antique Calabash Bottle - Double Wheat Sheaf / 8 Pointed Star - Mid 1800's Quart 9.25 inches tall Aqua colored Open Pontil Applied lip Good Condition In the period between 1820 and 1840 the country experienced tremendous growth in agriculture and industry. However, just as today, domestic products battled cheaper imports. Being as a large majority of the people who bought flasks and bottles (for the whiskey in them) were small merchants, laborers and farmers, it was popular to put symbols of agriculture, industry and the bounty of the land on them. This bottle sports a double sheaf of wheat on one side and an eight pointed star on the other (see picture). The wheat sheaf has a rake and a two-pronged pitch fork in an X behind it. The flask has a pontil mark on the bottom (see picture). A pontil is a device the glass blower placed the finished piece on to get it off the pipe and cool. Then the pontil was broken away, leaving a small crater. This flask also has mold seams visible in the bottom, up the sides but not really in the neck. A "blown in the mold" manufacturing technique was probably used. As I look the flask over, I see no chips or cracks. T are some small bubbles throughout with a couple of larger ones in the bottom. One is clearly visible in the pontil picture. T are some light surface scratches and t but none significant
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