ITEM 7495. MULTI-SIDED UTILITY
BOTTLE, golden olive amber, octagonal, pontil scar, 7 3/8"H,
crudely applied mouth, about mint (shallow, bean-sized open bubble
on a panel edge). New England, probably Connecticut, 1790-1820,
very rare.
This superb Connecticut bottle is the fifth of its type that
we have encountered, each of which was blown with the aid of
the same dip mold. A similar bottle (found in New England) is
photographed and described by Helen McKearin on Plate 72 #7 in
"American Bottles, Flasks and their Ancestry." McKearin
catalogues the bottle as late 18th century and possibly Pitkin
or Germantown in origin. Our personal belief is that the bottle
is Pitkin made, as the metal and pontil scar match with known
Pitkin objects. Similarly shaped bottles were blown in England
but make no mistake, this is indeed a New England bottle and
a rare one at that.
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