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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aquitaine, post: 342148, member: 602&quot;]BTW, [USER=6868]@Huntingtreasure[/USER], I looked up Calabash: (&#039;cuz I didn&#039;t know!!!!) : Calabash bottles are large, gourd or pear shaped bottles (sometimes called flasks also) which were quite popular during the mid 19th century, i.e., 1840s to around 1870.&nbsp; The name presumably originates from the resemblance of these bottles to the hard shelled, gourd-like fruits of the tropical American &quot;calabash tree&quot; - <i>Crescentia cujete</i> (Gilman &amp; Watson 1993).&nbsp; Calabash bottles as a group are lumped together in most peoples minds by their shape but are actually classified in McKearin &amp; Wilson (1978) by what is portrayed via the embossing so they fall out in many groups.&nbsp; The origin of this distinctive bottle shape is attributed to Philadelphia mold maker Philip Doflein who reportedly created the first calabash bottle mold in the 1840s (WheatonArts website - <a href="http://www.wheatonarts.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wheatonarts.org" rel="nofollow"> www.wheatonarts.org</a> - 2009).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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