Pocket Flask
Pocket Flask
ManufacturerProbably
Whitney Brothers Glass Works
(American)
Place of Originprobably Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
Date1855-1870
Dimensions5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.408
Not on View
DescriptionSapphire-blue. Blown in a two-piece full-size mold that formed the flat, elliptical body. Neck drawn out from the body and shaped by tooling. Applied reinforced collar shaped by a lip-forming tool. No pontil mark.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 228-229, pl. 56.
Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 109, no. 37.
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