Carnival Glass Clevenger Sunflower Pinch Bottle South Jersey glass

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Iridized Carnival Glass Clevenger Sunflower Pinch Bottle South Jersey glass Ron Hansen? In book
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The Sunflower Pinch Bottle made at the Clevenger Brothers Glass Works of Clayton, New Jersey resembles a similar Sunflower design piece produced at the nearby Clayton Glass Works, operated by Charles Marks during the 1940s. It is possible that Clevenger Brothers acquired the Marks mold after the company folded in 1950.
While the first Clevenger Sunflower vases / bottles showed up in the 1950s, the Sunflower Pinch Bottle with its tooled top did not show up until the early 1966 catalog. The example offered here has an even wider neck and tooled top, probably the result of widening the neck of the mold and using a large lip finishing tool.
This specific bottle is the only example I have seen with the Carnival Glass finish over top of an amethyst bottle.
It may have been iridized by brothers Ronald and Robert Hansen, who did this with glass made by many other glass companies. I have seen other Clevenger flasks done in this way by the Hansens. It is not marked by them, which is evidently not uncommon.
This bottle measures 6 3/8 inches tall and has a pontil mark on the base along with CB initials, which dates the piece to circa 1966-1979. (Clevenger stopped using the punty rod in 1979, hence no pontil marks after that time.) There are also CB initials on bottom flower petals on both sides. Aside from an in-manufacture crescent shape gouge on the top (visible in one photo and done before the piece was "carnivalized!"), the bottle is in excellent condition.
Purchased directly from Clevenger factory owner Jim Travis.
This exact piece appears in Figure 713 on page 322 of my book
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Century South Jersey Glass, Volume 1 Clevenger Brothers.
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