FINE RARE & EARLY ANTIQUE LEATHER HAND MADE GLASS WHISKEY FLASK c.1820

Description: FINE RARE & EARLY ANTIQUE LEATHER HAND MADE GLASS WHISKEY FLASK c.1820 - 1860's FINE RARE & EARLY ANTIQUE LEATHER CLAD 2 PIECE LARGE HAND MADE GLASS WHISKEY FLASK ~ CIRCA 1820 – 1860’s This early handmade flask is a heavy duty, i.e., is clad in a very heavy leather formed and stitched base with a small separate flat piece at the base bottom, and a form fitted very heavy leather shaped stitched removable top piece that also has a separate flat leather piece at the top. About 7 ½” tall x 3 ½” wide x 1 ½” thick and heavy for its size at 12.2 ounces or 347 grams. The leather is about 1/8” thick and is coated with a dark orange pigment that resembles the early leather coatings that began around 1820 that somewhat resemble patent leather. The vast majority of the coloration still remains, with scattered surface wear and random handling marks. The flask shape is in an elongated heart shape with heavy duty stitching on the sides with the top and bottom flat panels glued onto shaped to fit. The heavy leather bottom is permanently attached to the glass bottle. Originally, the top was designed to have a tight fit to the glass top that makes the entire flask covered in thick leather when closed. As expected, all-natural material shrinks over time, and the top now has an even tighter fit to the top portion of the glass, and both the top and bottom leather has shrunken and now has a gap between the top and base. Note that the cork fits comfortably inside the top and does not prevent the leather top from closing all the way. Note that almost all early flasks in this style have the center gap from naturally occurring shrinkage and is an idiosyncrasy of this pattern flask. If you close the top of the flask to the base all the way, you need the small gap to be able to force up the leather top as it is a very tight fit. Note there are small dots in the center of the top lip and bottom lip that designate which side matches up with the base. The pattern is similar to smaller period SYKES leather flasks that date to the 1830 – 1860’s period, but I believe this shape and size is slightly earlier. The glass is hand blown into a mold, and the leather wrapping is hand made to fit each flask. The glass is about 1/8” thick at the spout, and the top half is very slightly concave on both sides to help grip this heavy flask when taking a nip. The glass has the very early random slight undulations found on early hand-blown glass, and the glass is fairly clear, with, as expected, some cloudiness inside. There appears to be an indentation on the inner lip that is smooth under magnification and appears to be part of the glass casting. Complete with a tight-fitting cork. 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Price: 236 USD

Location: Fairfield, California

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