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Attribution: by Henry Schoolcraft, Operator of the Marlboro Street Glassworks - Keene, New Hampshire, USA - Keene 1815-1817
Extremely rare.
EXHIBIT TEXT:
Henry Schoolcraft’s Masonic and melon-shaped flasks.
Schoolcraft is significant in the history of the United States’ Native American relations. In 1836, he negotiated a treaty with the Native Americans that resulted in the ceding of 16,000 acres to the United States. Schoolcraft operated a glass manufactory in Keene, New Hampshire, where he made glass flasks. These bottles were on their way back to America after being used in a Masonic celebration in England. (SEE/SAME TEXT FOR L.96.056, L.96.057)