Who Collects WHISKEY FLASKS?

[undertaker]

Here's The last flask that I purchased. I picked it up at the Keene NH. bottle show last fall. This one is a half pint. Wish I had the flask numbers for my flasks. Someday when I find time I will research them.

 

[undertaker]

I collect a different variety of bottles but in time would like to center it on just flasks. Who Im I kidding that will probably never happen.

 

[undertaker]

Westford Conn. Sheath of Wheat. Nice red amber color with crude applied top.

 

[Bass]

Thats a very nice collection. Thanks for sharing them with us

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's a nice Stoddard Glass bottle. It was the first flask I ever purchased.

We had similar tastes (when we were young), 'undertaker' . . . a similar flask may have been one of the first I bought. Mine was still in very tight wicker, and I sometimes regret removing it. ((can't upload an image for some reason))

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[GaRebel1861]

Hey Rebel.

Man, that is a fine looking flask! Scarce too, I believe. Anything on Grover's obverse? I wanna see more pictures, please, and hear more about it's discovery...

So I don't hijack this thread let me get it back here and take some current photos and I'll re-post it in a new one with the story.

 

[Harry Pristis]

It's nice to see the historical flasks. Here's another, later style. Note the ground lip on this pumpkinseed flask.

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[Tnmountains]

I have been digging a bottle dump the last couple of weeks from my great uncle when time permits. Here are two of the flask from there. The green one may have about an 1/8th of an inch gap on the inside walls. Though the lips are similar I think the manufacture is different. I always enjoy seeing the flask.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I have been digging a bottle dump the last couple of weeks from my great uncle when time permits. Here are two of the flask from there. The green one may have about an 1/8th of an inch gap on the inside walls. Though the lips are similar I think the manufacture is different. I always enjoy seeing the flask.

Thanks for posting your finds, 'Tnmountains; . . . I've seen those lip finishes described as "brandy finishes." Here's a pair of tiny flask - one with a brandy finish - that may have been whiskey nips OR they may have held essence of Jamaica ginger.

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's one that I like a lot:

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[GaRebel1861]

Yeah, I wish I had one of those too. Can you imagine pulling that from an old privy? Heart stopper.

 

[Harry Pristis]

And, we should note the many flasks used by the South Carolina Dispensary.

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[Road Dog]

Here are a few I have. Sold a few of them recently.

 

[Road Dog]

A few more. I have more , but will spare you.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Heres one that a buddy of mine picked up at a yard sale. If I remember right he said that it cost him $10.

 

[Harry Pristis]

A few more. I have more , but will spare you.

That last flask, Road Dog . . . is that one of the little (4.8") flasks like I posted above? Does it have a circular label window on the other side? Does the dose glass contain a shot (1.5 oz)? I had no idea that there might be a dose glass go-with.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Heres one that a buddy of mine picked up at a yard sale. If I remember right he said that it cost him $10.

I'd say that that was an outstanding yard sale pick-up, GaRebel!!

 

[GaRebel1861]

I've offered to double his money on that one!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's another pumpkin seed pint . . . with a clockface.

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[Road Dog]

That last flask, Road Dog . . . is that one of the little (4.8") flasks like I posted above? Does it have a circular label window on the other side? Does the dose glass contain a shot (1.5 oz)? I had no idea that there might be a dose glass go-with.

No it's a much larger Flask. Similar style though.