Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1770-1790
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 24.8 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle possibly blown into a dip mold and has cylindrical neck with an applied up-tooled with flattened sides, string rim, rounded shoulders, and a squat, cylindrical body with a push-up and pontil mark; bottle has iridescence over the entire surface.
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Crimmins
Object Number:
1893.5b
Marks:
typed: on tag; "RUM BOTTLE/ FOUND IN THE EXCAVATION ON FRONT STREET/ BETWEEN BROAD AND WHITEHALL STREETS./ GIFT OF MR. JOHN D. CRIMMINS, 1893"
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this bottle was recovered from the hull of a vessel uncovered during excavations on Front Street between Broad and Whitehall Streets for the proposed power house for the cable road in February, 1893. The hull of the ship was possibly used as part of a wharf or dam for landfill.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
23717
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pane/plaque
Classification:
Date:
1833-1835
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless, lead glass; pressed. Rectangular pane with recessed rim; in the center a panel with a side-wheel river boat; above it "J. & C. RITCHIE", on either side of the panel two large vases with flowers and leaves, underneath a thistle above a shell as the center of two geometric horns-of-plenty which support the vases, "lacy" or stippled background.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., 1976
Object Number:
INV.14409
Marks:
pressed: "J. & . C. RITCHIE"
Gallery Label:
Eight identical panes were found in a secretary bookcase in 1955; one is currently in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, another in the collection of the Oglebay Mansion Museum in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
23716
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Collection of salt cellars and shot glasses (15)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
largest: 1 x 1 7/8 in. ( 2.5 x 4.8 cm )
Description:
Group of fifteen colorless pressed lead glass salts consisting of five square with impressed star bases; six circular with impressed star bases; three circular with impressed concentric ring bases; one circular with oval-decorated sides and impressed star base.
Object Number:
INV.8073
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
23691
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1830-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 4 x 2 in. ( 15.2 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Olive amber non-lead glass figured flask blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin GV-10) with hand-tooled neck, oval body, horse-drawn railroad car on track with inscriptions "RAILROAD" and "LOWELL" on obverse, American eagle on field of stars on reverse, and flat base with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.343
Marks:
in relief: on obverse: "RAILROAD" and "LOWELL"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
23689
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1830-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 17.8 x 10.8 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Olive amber lead glass figured flask blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin GV-9) with hand-tooled neck, oval body, horse-drawn railroad car on track on obverse, American eagle on reverse, and flat base with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.379
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
23690
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Boot
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 10.8 x 10.8 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless frosted pressed lead glass boot with heel; pressed decoration consists of side buttons with a scalloped edge.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.569
Gallery Label:
Glass boots like this one were made around the time of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and were almost certainly meant to be flower holders (see publications).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
23688
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1830-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 x 2 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Green non-lead glass figured flask blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin GV-5) with hand-tooled flared neck, ovoid body with horse-drawn railroad car on track with inscription "SUCCESS TO THE RAIL ROAD" on obverse and reverse, and flat base with blowpipe mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.380
Marks:
in relief: on obverse and reverse: "SUCCESS TO THE RAIL ROAD"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
23687
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bootie w/toes: white
Classification:
Date:
ca.1901
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/8 x 3 x 1 5/8 in. ( 5.4 x 7.6 x 4.1 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed lead glass bootie with child's toes protruding from end of shoe; shoe is open, with eyelets for laces; shoe ends at ankle and sock continues to rim.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.637
Gallery Label:
This object may have been made at the time of the Pan American Exposition held in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1901 (see publications).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
23686
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1855-1872
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 4 x 2 in. ( 19 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Green non-lead glass figured flask blown in a full-size three-part mold (McKearin GII-62) with hand-tooled flared finish, rectangular body with rounded shoulders, American eagle grasping an olive wreath with inscription "LIBERTY" above on obverse, inscription "WILLINGTON GLASS, CO WEST, WILLINGTON CONN" on reverse, flat base, and no pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.385
Marks:
in relief: on obverse: "LIBERTY"
in relief: on reverse: "WILLINGTON / GLASS, CO / WEST, WILLINGTON / CONN"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1872
eMuseum Object ID:
23684
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pair of attached shoes
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 1 7/8 in. ( 3.2 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm )
Description:
Pair of colorless pressed glass attached shoes; shoes are attached, and there is a single open depression at the top of the pair of shoes; pressed decoration consists of bows on front of each shoe.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
Z.450
Gallery Label:
Object may have been meant as an ashtray (see publications)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
23683
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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