ITEM 7526. SUNBURST FLASK, (McK#GVIII-5),
olive green, pontil scar, pint, sheared and fire polished mouth,
a mint flask exhibiting some light high point wear. Blown at
the Pitkin Glass Works, East Hartford, CT, C. 1820, rare.
Miscatalogued by McKearin as "common," the Pitkin-made
GVIII-5 is in fact a rare flask, perhaps even harder to find
than the elusive GVIII-7. Flasks blown in this mold are among
the very earliest of the figured flasks and one could make an
argument that the Pitkin-made sunbursts were in fact America's
"first" two-piece mold flasks. The sunburst was a recognizable
decorative motif of the period and can be seen in the architecture
of the time.
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