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Flask with Masonic Symbols
1815-1825
Maker not marked
USA: Connecticut (possibly)
Glass, paper, ink
overall: 8"h x 4-1/8"w x 2-3/4"d
Gift of Alan R. Heath
2021.004.5

Glass flask with Masonic symbols; one pint; mold blown; olive; sides corrugated horizontally, with 3 corrugations extending around flask where neck meets body; plain lip with broad sloping collar; obverse: two columns with arch and 22-brick mosaic pavement; within arch, all-seeing eye, bible with square and compasses, delta below; below mosaic floor, beehive to PL; reverse: banner at top; eagle with shield, head turned to PR; three arrows and olive branch in talons; below eagle, plain oval frame that is blank in center. Pontil mark at bottom with protuberance of glass on PR side; two white paper stickers with numbers handwritten in ink: one is oval "2071" and the other rectangular with "G4-16".



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