Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Flask with Farmer's Arms and Masonic Symbols
1820-1830
White Glass Works; Joseph Shephard & Co.
USA: Ohio, Zanesville
Glass, paper, ink
overall: 6-5/8"h x 4-3/8"w x 3"d
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.6129

Glass flask with Farmer's Arms and Masonic symbols; one pint; mold blown; light green; sides vertically ribbed; tooled lip; obverse: two columns with arch formed by eight stones plus keystone, with 22 widely-spaced bricks forming mosaic pavement; within arch, sheaf of rye, pitchfork, shovel, rake, sickle, axe and scythe; below pavement, elaborate scroll ornament; reverse: eagle with shield bearing stripes, head turned to PL, rays over head, with "ZANESVILLE" above; three arrows and olive branch in talons; eagle stands on oval frame with inner band of tiny pearls and "OHIO" at center; below oval, "J. SHEPHARD & CO. [S reversed]". Pontil mark at bottom, as well a white rectangular paper sticker with "1406-6" handwritten in ink.