GI-99 JENNY LIND – HUFFSEY PORTRAIT CALABASH FLASK

Price Realized: $187.00
Sold Date: Feb 28, 2020
Lot #74

quart, embossed “JENNY LIND” on obverse and “GLASS WORKS / S. HUFFSEY” on reverse, applied broad sloping mouth with lower collar, light rough pontil mark. Outstanding, strong embossing with lightly dimpled surface to body.

Item/Auction Attributes

strong blue green,
Made for Samuel Huffsey, Philadelphia, probably at the Isabella Glass Works, New Brooklyn, New Jersey.
1850-1870.
Undamaged with only some minute wear.
10 1/4" H.
Provenance: From the estate collection of Russell and Doris Evitt, Jackson, CA.
$300.00
$500.00
Literature: McKearin/Wilson - American Bottles & Flasks, pp. 548, 549.
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