Strap sided flask marked JH

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  • PS~Here is one more bottle to inquire about. My husband found locally during a ground excavation.
    001.JPG 472.6K
  • This is an interesting bottle. Collectors would call it an amber strap sided flask. There are thousands if not millions of these that are either

    (1) unembossed;
    or
    (2) marked "Warrented Flask"

    Yours dates to the late 19th century and is somewhat personalized, if only with someone's initials. A number of such bottles are listed in the McKearin flask book, American Bottles and Flasks and their Ancestry but it is by no means an exhaustive list.

    I was just discussing such flasks the other day with a collector friend of mine - we were commenting on how some of these fetch big money while others are ho-hum value wise. It all depends on the interest of a few individuals.
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