Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Flask with Masonic Symbols
1822-1828
Marlboro St. Glass Works
USA: New Hampshire, Keene
Glass, paper, ink
overall: 7-1/2"h x 4-1/4"w x 2-1/4"d
Special Acquisitions Fund
75.47.2

Glass flask with Masonic symbols; one pint; mold blown; olive/amber; sides with one vertical rib; plain lip; obverse: sun; six stars; two columns with arch and 12 (possibly 16)-brick mosaic pavement; within arch, all-seeing eye, bible with square and compasses, delta with rays; crossbones and trowel to PR of arch; Jacob's ladder to PL of arch; reverse: plain banner at top; eagle, with shield bearing 12 stars, head turned to PR; three arrows and olive branch in talons; plain oval frame with "KCCNC" ["KEENE" with center bar missing in each E]. Pontil mark at bottom, as well as a white rectangular paper sticker with "6-1" handwritten in ink.