The Washington Taylor flask described by McKearin as GI-37 is a fairly common item whether they be the original 19th century bottle or the abundantly reproduced 20th century copy. Determining whether one is a true historical flask or just a replica made by the Clevenger Brothers or other late 20th century manufacturer is not always [...]
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Masonic Flasks
There are 43 documented molds of 19th century American historical flasks which portray a Masonic design on at least one face of the bottle. These flasks comprise Group 4 of American Bottles and Flasks and their Ancestry. In this group, several molds are quite rare and some examples are easily worth 30 to 50 thousand [...]
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Scroll Flasks
Antique scroll flasks are easy to spot thanks to their distinctive shape. While aqua is the most commonly found color by far, other brilliant colors (greens, ambers, blues) are not infrequently encountered and fetch top dollar by collectors. George and Helen McKearin described the scroll (or violin) flasks in their book, American Glass, in the [...]
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The McKearin Historical Flask Groups
Group I – Portrait Flasks Numbers 1 through 61 are Washington Flasks Numbers 62 through 79a cover Adams, Harrison, Jackson and Taylor Numbers 80 through 93 are Lafayette Numbers 94 through 98 are Franklin Numbers 99 through 107a are Jenny Lind Other portrait flasks are listed in molds 111 through 131 Group II – American [...]
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