Victorian 1906 Crystal Cruet Decanter Bryce Higbee & Co Madora Pattern Pontil

Great condition cruet/decanter by Bryce Higbee & Company in 1906. This is Early American Pressed Glass. It was made by hand so there´s a pontil mark on both the stopper and the bottom of the cruet. These marks come from when glassblowing was still in its infancy and so they would simply break off the remaining glass after they blow the actual item. A pontil is just a glass handle that starts as one piece of glass; the same that the bottle is made of. Thus it needs to be broken off when the bottle is blown. Again, it´s on the stopper too which gives me hope this is the original stopper but I don´t know that.

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