BLOWN-MOLDED LOOP-TYPE COMMERCIAL COLOGNE BOTTLE, medium sapphire blue, hexagonal form with pronounced shoulder, medium neck, and flanged mouth, raised on a conforming foot with polished pontil mark, original pressed hexagonal stopper, neither unit numbered. Mt. Washington Glass Works and Patrick F. Slane's American Glass Co., South Boston, MA. 1849-1857. 4 7/8" HOA, 4" H bottle, 1 5/8" D base.
Published: Kaiser - The Glass Industry in South Boston, p. 123, fig. 174 (retains publication label).
Literature: Parallels ibid., p. 122, fig. 171, which is embossed for H.E. Swan of Fall River, MA.
Provenance:
From the important 40-year collection of James Carusello, Waterbury, CT.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, 5/20/2017, lot 188 (retains auction label).
Ex-collection of Joan E. Kaiser of Sandwich and related glass (labeled with accession #01.22).
Carl Pratt, Old Bottles, Sandwich, MA.
Exhibited: Sandwich Glass Museum - "Pressing Business," 2012; and "Common Scents," 2015.
Undamaged with moderate interior residue.

































