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Amber Scroll Flask & Harkness Fire Destroyer - The Harkness has unusual red swirls.

The picture on the left shows two of our very favorite pieces. The piece on the right is a HARKNESS FIRE DESTROYER in a gorgeous Cobalt / Sapphire Blue with Cherry Red and Amethyst swirls throughout. It is not only a RARE piece but the coloration is highly unusual. On the left is a Golden Amber figured Scroll Flask. These ornately designed flasks are attractive, are found in such wonderful colors and were made fairly early in the glass making history of this country. The collecting of Flasks is probably the most stable segment of the bottle collecting hobby.

The Flasks at the right are among the most common and inexpensive type of flask collected. That is not to say that there are not rarities among this group. As with all types of bottles, rare and desirable colors most often dictate the value of the flasks with mold variation being another contributing factor. The two pieces here are among the CORNUCOPIA-URN group, the one on the left shows the CORNUCOPIA with the URN shown on the right. They are a bit better color than the average but still quite affordable.

Cornucopia - Urn in two of green colors

Pair For Pikes Peak flasks

The FOR PIKE'S PEAK flasks are a very Historical group. They were made to commemorate the discovery and development of the gold fields in Colorado which served to open much more of the West than had been opened before. There is quite a variety of types and colors in this group but any color other than Aqua is scarce to extremely rare. The earliest of these flasks were manufactured in the mid-1850s with most produced in the 1860s. Most variants picture a Prospector on the front and an Eagle on the reverse but some have a Hunter shooting a Deer there. We have long favored this group of flasks but have only a few examples. The acquisition of more is high on the priority list.

The collection shown at the right is a potpourri of things that we have acquired over many years. While many items are not bottles, they go along because most were found while digging old privies for bottles. It is amazing the things that are found buried in the ground and what is even more amazing is that some survive in almost pristine condition if they were somehow protected from the decaying elements. These represent the best of the multitude found in the dozens of sites dug. A few were purchased and all were once a part of our two Daughters' collections when they were small and interested in the folks' foolishness. They are now proudly displayed in an old printing press type tray hung on the wall in our bathroom. Some of them still conjure up a specific fond memory of days gone by.

Shelf with mini bottles - Many were dug by Jim.

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