Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Flask with Masonic Symbols
1817-1822
Marlboro St. Glass Works
USA: New Hampshire, Keene
Glass, paper, ink
overall: 7-3/8"h x 4-3/8"w x 3"d
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.6122

Glass flask with Masonic symbols; one pint; mold blown; blue-green; 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 indistinct "E PLURIBUS UNUM" at top; eagle with shield, head turned to PR; three arrows and olive branch in talons; below eagle, oval frame with "I P" joined together with a cross-bar. Pontil mark at bottom; white rectangular paper sticker with "1406-1" handwritten in ink covering red and white paper sticker.