Antique FLORA TEMPLE Pictorial Horse Historical Flask Bottle GXIII-24 Damaged

Description: Up for sale is a very unusual historical flask / bottle dating to around 1860. It's a flattened oval shape with an outward flare towards the wider shoulders, with a small neck having a thick applied/tooled solid glass handle attached low on the neck and at the shoulder. The front is embossed with a left-facing horse inside of an angled square picture frame with "FLORA TEMPLE" above it, and "HARNESS TROT 2. 19 3/4" below; the square frame juts out from the body of the flask, and there's embossed detail above it depicting the picture frame's hanger and a dangling tassel. The color is not easy to describe but it's somewhere in the copper/apricot puce realm: brown with a red-orange tone, and with great bubbly glass texture too. It's got an applied ring collar. This flask is charted as GXIII-24 in the McKearins' "American Bottles and Flasks and their Ancestry", its listing can be found on page 660. It's 8 1/2" tall and 2 1/2" wide across the base. It's a placeholder flask in displayable condition with a good sparkly surface, never buried, but with major damage: a crack stemming from both the upper and lower handle attachment points traveling down into the body. The lower crack travels 3" down along the front right side and has a leg going back 1" to the reverse also, while the upper one travels a short distance up in the neck. Both have slight chipping/roughness at the attachment points. These stress cracks are a typical fatal flaw in early glass when handles are applied at the glass factory like this, and the roughness suggests this damage happened in making, due to a temperature difference in the glass. Still, a mint example in this color would probably cost about $750 so I am hoping someone can get some enjoyment out of this one until a mint example comes along. Satisfaction guaranteed, if you're not in love after handling it in person I'm happy to accept returns. Shipped via USPS Priority Mail at buyer's expense, or pickup in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Please visit my 'Ebay Store' as I always have dozens of other bottles, flasks etc for sale - if you see something else you like, let me know and we can work out a deal and combine shipping! Be sure to "follow" or "save" me as a seller, that way you're the first to know when I add new listings :) I am a proud member of the FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors), I encourage anyone unfamiliar to reach out and I'll be happy to share a long list of benefits/reasons why I'm a member and why I think you should join too! It's a vital organization and there's truly no other community like it, online or offline. Visit fohbc.org

Price: 130 USD

Location: Staunton, Virginia

End Time: 2024-12-14T00:26:24.000Z

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