Pontiled Rail Road Historical Flask Deep Moss Green Wild Crudeness 1820s Nice

Description

Offered Here is an Original, Antique, 1820's-Era, American, Mold-Blown, "U.S. Historical" YWhiskey Flask in a Classic Pictorial "Success To The Railroad" / Horse Drawn R.R. Car" Mold. I Believe this One is a G-V-3 - G-V-5, as Charted in the Famous Reference Book "AMERICAN BOTTLES + FLASKS AND THEIR ANCESTRY" by Helen Mckearin and Ken Wilson c. 1978. Accordingly the Flask is Attributed to the Glass Factories at Keene N.H. or at Mount Vernon New York State.
This Example is a Wildly Crude, and Early Looking Oval-Shaped, Pint-Size Flask.  It Features a Nice "Sheared-Top" that has Amazing Vertical Stretch-Lines literally Shooting-Up To the Very Top of the Lip, as Seen in the Well-Lit Photos, which are Taken in Pure and Natural Bright Sunlight.
The Mold Details and Embossed Letters are Strong and are Seen Through the Incredible Crudity along with Thousands of Tiny Entrapped Seed-Bubbles Inside the Early Glass.
The Sides of the Bottle are Somewhat Varied in Thickness as is the Case with Most Very Early Blown Glass American Flasks and Bottles. The Bottle Gets Lighter in Color, while the Glass-Thickness Decreases in Certain Areas.
The Bottom of the Bottle has a Great Looking "Off-Center" Tubular-Pontil-Scar which is Thicker than Most that I have Seen on other Early American Historical Flasks, of this Era.
*****SUCCESS TO THE RAILROAD FLASKS Courtesy Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors *****
The railroad or railway, both the horse-and-cart type and the steam locomotive inspired many early American flask designs. The railroad flasks, first appearing in 1830, and the slogan “Success to the Railroad” inspired our exceptional Prussian-blue GV-2 Locomotive flask pint. Of the fourteen railroad flasks charted, the slogan appears in seven. Two charted railroad flasks have the embossed locomotive on both sides and have been attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works in Lancaster, New York from about 1849 to 1860.
Our museum example of a GV-2 “Success to the Railroad” Locomotive flask features an embossed, very early, crude steam locomotive on tracks on both sides within oval panels. Embossed copy reading, ‘SUCCESS TO THE RAILROAD’ is placed in a horseshoe configuration surrounding the locomotive. A horseshoe rib surrounds both the inscription and locomotive. The reverse of the flask is the same. This pint flask can be found with a plain lip and a pontil mark. The flask edges are vertically ribbed (3) with a heavy medial rib.
The GV-2 design is similar to the GV-1 design. Although the embossed lettering and locomotive may appear the same on both sides, the flasks were blown in different molds. On the base of the GV-2, on one edge, there is an embossed stacked “4 x 4” and what appears to be a partial “200” embossed on the opposite edge and cut off by the base. Also, the medial rib is narrower and lacks the angular break at the base that is present in the GV-1 mold.
Known glass colors are aquamarine which is considered rare and medium green, golden amber, apricot, moss green, and clear dark olive green is considered extremely rare. Our example in Prussian blue is not listed in McKearins and must be considered extremely rare and possibly one of a kind.
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Reference to
American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry
by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson, Crown Publishers Inc., New York, 1978.*****