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  Registered Member #28 Joined: Thu Jul 19 2007, 02:08Posts: 43 | 'Reform flasks' are the British equivalent of the US historical flasks. Dating from the early 1830s through to the mid 1850s, they are called 'reform' flasks because many of them refer to events of the great age of progressive political reform in Britain, from the Great Reform Act of 1832 through to the repeal of the hated Corn Laws in the mid 1840s. These three examples date from roughly 1832 to 1842. The bloke in the wig is Lord Brougham, who was instrumental in forcing through the Reform Act in 1832, against virulent opposition from conservative politicians which was so serious, and so opposed to the general public mood of the time, that a national constitutional crisis, and the danger of widespread bloodshed, was narrowly averted. The other flask has a bust of Dante on one side and of Napoleon on the other, and refers to a series of radical political essays by the philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published in 1840-41. All three of these flasks were manufactured in the Derbyshire potteries of the English midlands (the grey-green lead slip glaze is characteristic of those potteries), although most reform flasks were made at London potteries, and are slat glazed. Each of these has a bottlers / merchants name on a clay 'slab seal'. This is extremely rare, with only 16 different types of reform flask known with slab seals, most of which are represented by single examples. Fewer than 30 slab sealed examples of all types are known. [ image disabled ] Digging in the UK | ||
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| chosi |
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  Registered Member #4 Joined: Mon Apr 23 2007, 07:55Posts: 156 | Those are very neat looking. I think I'd feel funny about drinking liquid directly out of either of the two bottles on the right. Sticking my lips on some guys stoneware head would give me the willies. - Chosi | ||
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