Lot 12: Squirrel Hunt Glass Sets by: Aaron Jenkins

Aaron Jenkins generously offers a set of four beautiful pieces of glasswork! Two glass powderhorns and two flasks make an elegant combination for any blackpowder shooter! Glass powderhorns began to appear in the 1700s but grew popular and more common in the early to mid-1800s. Examples, some still containing powder residue, can be seen in museum collections such as the Corning Museum of Glass and Winterthur. At least one painting shows a gentleman hunting in the Philadelphia area wearing a glass horn. 

One set includes an early American glass small pocket flask, which were the plastic bottles of their day—costing about as much as a modern convenience store water bottle. The other set offers a mallet bottle, a popular shape from the mid-1700s, reflecting the era’s design and glassmaking techniques. One of the offered powderhorns features a base with a distinctively American “lilypad” design.