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lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.
  • lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.
  • lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.
  • lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.
lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.

lot of three nearly identical mid-nineteenth century hand blown chianti rounded wine flasks salvaged from the former howard johnson inn.

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lot of three c.1860's hand blown "chianti style" green blue cylindrical, round bottom wine flasks recovered from the site of the non-extant howard johnson inn. the distinctive seamless, bulbous body has a long neck and applied collar. glasses varie in crudity and condition, with each exhibiting heavy whittling, bubbles, and some discoloration from having been dug. these were salvaged during the demolition of the downtown chicago howard johnson inn, a travel lodge constructed in the late 1960's. according to a highly informative polychromatic lithograph of chicago in 1857 by christian inger and based in a drawing by j.t. palmatary (pubished by brauhold & sonne) multiple dwellings lined the stretch of superior street where the howard johnson was later built. it is likely that the bottle, shards and privy boards found during excavation belonged to a long-abandoned privy "vault" behind one of those houses that once stood there.

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