Flask time

[pepperj]

Never seen or heard of a sausage flask before seeing yours-so cool! Thanks for sharing a unique style of bottle.

Now the Apple green is pure appealing to the eye-really a top shelf colour. Congrats on both flasks.

 

[caretaker]

here are 3 more, I gave a lot of these away, people like the flasks, , two of these are broken, the yellow one was my best one

 

[NJKLAGT]

Still my favourite dug flask, L&W union oval pint from somewhere between 1863-1873, Pittsburgh.

 

[smallfoot]

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I assume this to be a Foust sausage flask. I could be wrong. Dug in an 1880-90 privy. Jgas.

That's about the oddest flask I've ever seen,,,Cool!

 

[villagenut]

I can just see someone saying...."I aint drankin nuthin, jus gots some sausage, thats all."

 

[stewielouie]

This just came in the mail yesterday.

 

[villagenut]

Ooh thats a nice one...prob not a Wheaton, right lol

 

[bottles123]

All I seem to dig is unembossed strapsides, unfortunately.

Out of them these 2 are my favorite, they're both earlier Lyndborough N.H. flasks I found in the same pocket. I've found a dozen shards of flask slugplates, but never any whole, which is a shame. They're pretty rare around me.

 

[bottles123]

Side note: I did find this embossed flask a while back. Nice big crack through the back and sides, unfortunately. Can anyone recommend me a good glue for bottles/glass? I have all the pieces and have been meaning to try to assemble it as practice for nicer stuff that's broken if it comes along.

 

[pepperj]

Side note: I did find this embossed flask a while back. Nice big crack through the back and sides, unfortunately. Can anyone recommend me a good glue for bottles/glass? I have all the pieces and have been meaning to try to assemble it as practice for nicer stuff that's broken if it comes along.
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Lee Valley sells one hairline cracks
Low-Viscosity Glue – Hot Stuff

 

[pepperj]

here are 3 more, I gave a lot of these away, people like the flasks, , two of these are broken, the yellow one was my best oneView attachment 1905939View attachment 1905940View attachment 1905941

The yellow one is really nice, something one doesn't see.
Thanks for sharing it.

 

[pepperj]

This just came in the mail yesterday.

Have you any information on the beauty?

 

[stewielouie]

Have you any information on the beauty?

The McKearin flask book list's it as a GVIII-29, Its a referred to as a Sunburst flask, most likely from the New England area. This one is open pontil. 1840's maybe?

 

[stewielouie]

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All I seem to dig is unembossed strapsides, unfortunately.
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Out of them these 2 are my favorite, they're both earlier Lyndborough N.H. flasks I found in the same pocket. I've found a dozen shards of flask slugplates, but never any whole, which is a shame. They're pretty rare around me.

That Citron one is nice. I love strap side flasks. Especially the hard to get colors.

 

[stewielouie]

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Falls City Glass Co. Apple Green dug in the same pit as the sausage flask. Jgas.

That's a color you don't often see.

 

[stewielouie]

View attachment 1905668 here's a few

Nice Anchor flask, its a GXIII-64 or GXIII66, depending on the anchor cable, I cant tell from the pic. I have it in all 3 sizes. Nice bottle.

 

[stewielouie]

A nice blue strap side flask from the Withlacoochee River found in 1971.

Nice quart, they lived a rough life out in the wild. Most got broken easily.

 

[caretaker]

maybe Keene or Stoddard NH, that's where I started digging bottles in the early 80's, found a dump that had a bunch of broken glass in it like the sunburst, my neighbor told me it where the Keene glass company thru their glass and if I dug down deep, I would find some whole bottles, I moved the next week to Maine and never went back, if you are ever in the Keene area, it's across from the cemetery on RT12

 

[stewielouie]

maybe Keene or Stoddard NH, that's where I started digging bottles in the early 80's, found a dump that had a bunch of broken glass in it like the sunburst, my neighbor told me it where the Keene glass company thru their glass and if I dug down deep, I would find some whole bottles, I moved the next week to Maine and never went back, if you are ever in the Keene area, it's across from the cemetery on RT12

I have always felt like they were Keene, even with all the records and info available on them and the other glass house's up that way. They still have them listed as unknown manufacture. They made some really nice ones up north.

 

[caretaker]

if you ever get a chance, to go to Keene NH, stop in at the Historic Society building, it's on Main ST, it has the most unbelievable class collection, I ever saw, it's in the basement