BLOWN-MOLDED COMMERCIAL PUNGENT / SCENT BOTTLES, LOT OF THREE, medium blue, medium green, and colorless opalescent, each double-ogee form with eight sides, original Britannia screw caps, with the opalescent cap having embossed floral decoration; green example with the original cork liner. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1850-1870. 3 1/4" H.
Green and opalescent undamaged, blue example with a single chip to the rim and the Britannia lid having some roughness/flaking to the edge.
Literature: Parallels McKearin/Wilson - American Bottles & Flasks, p. 390, pl. 106, fig. 14.
Provenance: From the estate collection of Wagner P. Thielens, NYC.
Blue example ex-Gardner collection (retains collection label).
Green example George Abraham & Gilbert May, Granville, MA, Granville, MA, 10/19/74.

Green and opalescent undamaged, blue example with a single chip to the rim and the Britannia lid having some roughness/flaking to the edge.