Steve/sewell
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This is one of the Clevengers better made flasks in regaurds to it's size and the relief on the grapes and the Eagle are close to the original.There are however as usual easy to tell ways in identifying them as what they are a half decent copy.Once again I think the intent of the gaffers was to fool the buyer and for this alone I will never collect Clevenger copy glass,just their own original works.The bottle is large as it is quart sized just like the original.The easiest way to tell the difference between it and the Waterford New Jersey glass works version is turn the bottle upside down and look at two areas.First the pontils on these bottles were made with a very smooth rod that left a half inch deep circular pontil mark that does not look like a pontil on an original at all.The pontil on this bottle resembles very closely the pontil marks on the fake Albany Glass Works GI-28 bottle seen all over ebay.Secondly proportionably the bottle is not very symmetrical in shape when viewed upside down and comparing it directley with an original base.Here is a picture of an original and the Clevenger version.The two differences are quite obvious when viwed side by side.
![4CBA1011F59645F3A6745391C227C0E1.jpg](https://www.antique-bottles.net/upfiles/12005/4CBA1011F59645F3A6745391C227C0E1.jpg)