I have two of these, and I think they're Stoddard bottles, but I don't know anything beyond info passed down to me.
These were found by my father in a trash pile way back in the far corner of our barn's attic in Marlborough, NH.
Could be from one of the Stoddard glass-houses. Here's my example. Someone else here dug one, I recall, and we discussed it here a year or two ago.
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
Stoddard I believe is a NH glasshouse so your very nice piece is almost certainly Stoddard. Nice find. That one has plenty of good crude glass character. Mhill70, one more thing, welcome to Tnet. And please feel free to post more pics of that one.
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Whether Stoddard or not that is a fantastic bottle. Welcome and please feel free to post more pics, we at T-Net love pictures. Picture of the old barn would be cool also.
Stoddard I believe is a NH glasshouse so your very nice piece is almost certainly Stoddard. Nice find. That one has plenty of good crude glass character. Mhill70, one more thing, welcome to Tnet. And please feel free to post more pics of that one.
That's not correct, 'gleaner1' -- Stoddard is a town in NH which has a long glass-making history. At least three glass works are mentioned in McKearin & Wilson:
Granite Glass Works
New Granite Glass Works (dates are about right for this flask)
South Stoddard Glass Works.
Sooo... "Stoddard" glass is actually a reference to the locale where it was made, not to a specific glass works.
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
I see. Thanks for the shape-up and education. Harry at times is brutally tough...but always fair.
I don't mean to be brutal, 'gleaner1'; I am concerned with accuracy. You are an old hand at bottle collecting, but there are unknown numbers of newbies who will read these threads and take 'em as gospel. Misinformation spreads like a virus.
I wish I knew how to be more diplomatic and still be effective.
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
No problem Harry I kinda had that coming to me anyway. I never knew the specifics about "Stoddard" and now we all do. Brutal was not a good choice of words on my part, and I don't think you are over-bearing in any way. At the end of the day we learned something, and that's good. Keep it up. Best regards, gleaner.
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