Description:
Bohemia and Germany created large quantities of inexpensive, colorless glass for the American market after the Revolution. Rectangular blown-molded, colorless, non-lead glass case bottle (would have fit into a portable wooden case with partitions) for the storage of alcohol, blown into a rectangular mold with second gather (half post method) observed on the neck of the bottle, flat base with small circular pontil mark, straight sides, and curved shoulders, slightly flared neck with flat, out turned lip, inside spout is not ground, the long sides of bottle are copper wheel engraved in a crude floral design of a flower with petals, stem, and cross hatched center, the short sides have a smaller, thinner flower, the shoulders are engraved in a repeating dot motif with the corners ornamented with a small flower, on bottom of base is attached the white modern label, "Essex Room/#408/Sq. Liquor/Bottle" and white painted number "#408", the interior of the bottle is very dirty, and there are some seeds (unmelted glass batch), striations, and bubbles in the glass.
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