EARLY NEW ENGLAND RIBBED MELON-TYPE FLASK, light to medium olive green, misshapen flattened wide oval-form, pint size, patterned with 20 thick vertical ribs around the body, applied string rim, kicked-up base with disk pontil scar. Possibly Keene Marlboro Street Glassworks. 1815-1830. 7" H.
Catalogue Note: A note with the flask claims that it was recovered from the wreck of the Caesar, a British ship which sunk off Bermuda in 1818. It is documented that a small group of these flasks and the related GIV-2 "HS / Henry Schoolcraft" Masonic flasks WERE in fact recovered from that wreck, but although it was clearly underwater a long time it cannot be confirmed if this specific flask was among that group, or if it was recovered from the ocean floor elsewhere. We are also selling an example of the mentioned GIV-2 in this sale as lot 258.

Collection of the late Al and Billy Steidel, Alexandria, VA.

Very good condition with no apparent chips or cracks but with heavy etching, surface wear/degradation, and staining due to having been recovered from an underwater resting place.