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Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 15-D
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Figural Indian maiden
bitters bottles are always
well received. This 12
⅛
"
high “Brown’s / Celebrated
/ Indian Herb Bitters /
Patented / 1868” had a very
appealing lighter citron
color and great mold
impression. Estimated at
$2000/4000, it sold for
$7605. “Unfortunately,
this bottle had a
repaired mouth,”
Heckler pointed out.
“I found this open salt fascinating,” Heckler said. “It was a
mold-blown hat form that was fashioned from an inkwell mold.”
Thought to have been made at the Mount Vernon Glass Works,
Vernon, NewYork, 1815-30, the salt was a brilliant yellowish green
and featured a tooled flared brim. At 1
⅞
" high x 2
7
/
16
" diameter at
the base, it sold for $6435 (est. $4000/8000).
The strong mold
impression and light
sapphire color helped
this “For Pike’s Peak”
and prospector - eagle
historical flask bring
$5850 (est. $1000/2000).
This 9
⅜
" tall barrel-
form “B.T. 1865.
S.C. / Smiths / Druid
Bitters” figural
bitters bottle in
medium amber glass
realized $5850 (est.
$1500/3000).
One side of this pint portrait flask
is embossed “Genl Lafayette” and
features a bust with shoulder-length
hair in a Masonic arch, while the
other side is embossed “Wheeling
/ Knox & McKee” and depicts an
eagle. Made of medium bluish-
green glass by Knox and McKee
Manufacturers, Wheeling, (West)
Virginia, it sold for $12,870
(est. $3000/6000).
This “Lafayette” and bust -
“DeWitt Clinton” and bust
portrait flask, 1824-25, was
made at the Coventry Glass
Works, Coventry, Connecticut.
Its brilliant olive-yellow glass,
well-defined mold impression,
and half-pint size were factors in
the $6435 price
(est. $2500/5000).
The Washington - Taylor
portrait flask in a brilliant
yellow-olive glass, probably
made at the Dyottville
Glass Works, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1840-60, sold
for $4680 (est. $2500/5000).
This “New York / Soda
Water” bottle in the shape
of a bowling pin has
“G. D. Coggeshall /
No. 421 Pearl St.” on
the other side. It is a
dark olive-green color
and sold for $7605
(est. $2500/5000).
This sunburst flask by the
Coventry Glass Works, Coventry,
Connecticut, was made in a
medium moss-green glass and,
according to the catalog, is “a
crudely formed flask with
numerous bubbles,” yet
it has an “exceptional
bright color” and is “an
appealing early form.”
It brought $7605
(est. $4000/8000).
This 1845-60 mineral water bottle
in a cylindrical soda bottle form
has “J. Boardman / NewYork.” and
“Mineral Waters / B / This Bottle
/ Is Never Sold” embossing. In a
beautiful pinkish-puce color, it went
at $7605 (est. $2500/5000).
“This flask was beautiful—
the finest of condition—
and the color was very
rare,” said Norman
Heckler, Sr. The flask
has “Benjamin Franklin”
and a bust on one side
with “T. W. Dyott, M.D.”
and a bust on the other.
This pint bust portrait
flask by the Kensington
Glass Works, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, sold for $12,870
(est. $10,000/20,000).
This deep olive-
green cylindrical
mineral water bottle
embossed “Saratoga
Seltzer Spring Co /
(Spouting Spring) /
Saratoga. N.Y.” –
“SSS” is well
defined and
realized $4680
(est. $3000/6000).