Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Flask with Masonic Symbols
1817-1822
Marlboro St. Glass Works
USA: New Hampshire, Keene
Glass, paper, ink
overall: 7-1/2"h x 4-5/8"w x 2-3/4"d
Gift of Alan R. Heath
2021.004.7

Glass flask with Masonic symbols; one pint; mold blown; deep amethyst/purple; sides with five vertical ribs; tooled lip; obverse: sun; quarter moon with rays and seven stars; two columns with arch and 34-brick mosaic pavement; within arch, all-seeing eye with rays, bible with square and compasses, delta with rays and G at center; skull and crossbones to PR of arch, trowel above; Jacob's ladder to PL of arch; below mosaic floor, crossed level and plumb to PR and beehive to PL; reverse: banner with "E PLURIBUS UNUM" at top; eagle with shield, head turned to PR; three arrows and olive branch in talons; below eagle, beaded oval frame with "IP" (I and P joined together) at center with cross-bar. Pontil mark at bottom, as well as one large round white paper sticker with "SKINNER [with abstract flying eagle above] / BLASKE / COLLECTION" printed on it in black ink, and two rectangular white paper stickers with numbers handwritten in ink: "2194" on smaller sticker and "H [?]-956 / GIV-4 / 1964 / [illeg.]" on larger one.