Americana Online
Description:
Four Wheel-engraved Decanters and Twenty-one Blown Wines, probably America, late 18th/early 19th century, two decanters with engraved liquor tags, decanter ht. to 12, wine ht. to 4 1/2 in.
The Collection of Donald Ballou Reid, Butternut Farm, Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Estimate $200-300
the two etched wines with chips to bases and rims. most of the freeblown wines with no chips or cracks, perhaps two with minor chips around the bases. minor chips to two decanter stoppers, and chip to one decanter rim.
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Donald BallouStephen L. Fletcher
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