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The “Washington” and bust - Taylor
bust and “Bridgeton / * / New.
Jersey” pint portrait flask by the
Bridgeton Glass Works, Bridgeton,
New Jersey, 1836-50, sold for $6435
(est. $6000/12,000). In medium golden-
amber glass with strong olive tones
and having a sheared mouth and a
pontil scar, “This flask had great glass
clarity,” Heckler said.
Its fine condition and
brilliant blue glass
helped this American
Washington bust - tree
portrait calabash flask,
1845-60, reach $15,210
(est. $10,000/20,000).
The quart flask has
an applied sloping
collared mouth and
a pontil scar.
This 4
⅞
" high early pattern-molded
plump pocket bottle in brilliant
medium amethyst glass with deeper
amethyst striations realized $4973
(est. $2000/4000). It features an
ogival pattern above its vertical
flutes and was made by
Stiegel’s American Flint
Glass Manufactory,
Manheim,
Pennsylvania, between
1770 and 1774.
Made in yellow-amber glass
with a topaz tone, this 9
⅜
"
high American barrel-form
“Hall’s / Bitters” bottle,
1860-80, sold for $4973
(est. $2000/4000).
This 8
⅞
" high “American
Life / Bitters / P. E. Iler /
Manufacturer / Tiffin, Ohio”
figural bitters bottle, 1860-80,
was made in a rectangular
modified log cabin form and has
a strong mold impression. Made
in a medium yellowish-amber
glass and having an applied
sloping collared mouth as well
as a smooth base, this bottle sold
for $8775 (est. $6000/12,000).
Embossed with “Wheat Price & Co.
Wheeling Va” and a bust on one side
and “Fairview / Works” and a likeness
of the glass factory on the other, this
portrait flask in light to medium
blue-green glass brought $15,210 (est.
$10,000/20,000).
“I really thought this bottle could
have made better,” Heckler said. “It
had so much going for it. It was a
bitters; it was a figural with its shape
matching the name on the bottle; and
it had an iron pontil mark.” The “Dr
Bell’s / Golden Tonic / Bitters” school
bell-form bottle in medium amber
glass with a yellow tone went at
$12,870 (est. $10,000/20,000). The
most interesting aspect of this
lot was that Heckler has never
had another one to sell. “It
was extremely rare, even to
us,” Heckler pointed out.
Thought to be from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and made between 1820 and 1840, this bluish-
aquamarine Zachary Taylor bust and “Rough &
Ready” - eagle portrait flask sold for $8775 (est.
$5000/10,000).
Cylindrical in
shape with tapering
shoulders and made
in a bright bluish-
aquamarine glass, this
7¼" tall blown three-
mold decanter by
Parks, Edmunds and
Parks, Kent, Ohio,
1824-34, made $5850
(est. $2000/4000).
Embossed with the words
“Original / Pocahontas / Bitters
/ Y. Ferguson” and made in a
brilliant bluish-aquamarine glass
with an applied square collared
mouth and a smooth base, this
9
⅛
" high barrel-form figural
bitters bottle brought $7020
(est. $2000/4000).
In a pleasing pineapple form
and in a brilliant medium olive-
yellow glass, this 8
⅝
" high
“W & Co / N.Y.” figural bitters
bottle, 1845-60 realized $5265
(est. $2000/4000).